AP FACT CHECK: Trump on Clinton and the Islamic State group

WASHINGTON – A claim from the presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts:

TRUMP: “No wonder. You’ve been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.”

THE FACTS: Hillary Clinton was born in 1947 and is currently 68 years old. She reached adulthood in 1965. The Islamic State group grew out of an al-Qaida spinoff, al-Qaida in Iraq in 2013, the year Clinton left the State Department.

EDITOR’S NOTE _ A look at the veracity of claims by political figures

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