AP FACT CHECK: Clinton takes liberties in Trump takedown

Serious is in the eye of the beholder, but Trump's proposal to sharply cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent is intended to encourage more businesses to remain in the U.S. rather than move overseas.

[...] Trump and his team weren't talking about paying off debt that "he'd run up."

Trump himself talked about doing this through robust economic and job growth, not stripping the U.S. of what the government calls "heritage treasures" like parks and monuments.

Clinton's claim is rooted in a statement by a Trump campaign adviser, Barry Bennett, who said Trump could "do all kinds of things to extract value from the assets we hold," like selling unused government buildings and leasing more federal land.

Most economists are highly critical of Trump's proposals to slap large tariffs on imports from China and Mexico, to remove everyone in the country illegally and to implement massive tax cuts that probably would balloon the deficit.

To do that, we should renegotiate deals that aren't working for Americans, and reject any agreements — like the Trans-Pacific Partnership — that don't meet my high bar for raising wages or creating good-paying jobs.

Clinton said in an October debate with Sanders that details of the liberalized trade deal among Pacific nations, completed in the fall, "didn't meet my standards" despite her earlier words of praise.

The final agreement, however, dropped or changed some provisions that liberal activist groups — the wing of the party she was courting in the primaries — had strongly criticized.

True enough, but just as Clinton changed her position on the Pacific trade deal, Trump has appeared to change his mind on the minimum wage.

CLINTON: "The Republican primary featured the Trump immigration plan: round up and deport more than 11 million people — almost all of whom are employed or are children going to school — then build a wall across our border and force Mexico to pay for it."

When the estimated number of children in school and young adults in post-secondary education is added, it appears that a little over 70 percent of people in the country illegally are thought to be either working or in school.

He did, in a 2012 tweet: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."