.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and also Kamala Harris went head to move in their first televised discussion in the US political election campaign.In 90 moments of usually fiery exchanges, the Republican politician and also Democratic governmental prospects traded insurance claims over essential vote-casting concerns including the economic condition, immigration and abortion.BBC Verify has been taking a look at them.Are travelers in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they are actually [immigrants] consuming the dogs, individuals that came in, they are actually consuming the cats, they're eating the pets of people that stay there". JUDGMENT: There is no proof that this is actually happening. Trump's review adhered to an unjustifiable case - which was shared through his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that immigrants from Haiti that have just recently resolved in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been actually consuming pets.Springfield urban area officials informed BBC Verify: "There have actually been actually no reliable reports or even certain insurance claims of household pets being actually hurt, wounded or mistreated by individuals within the immigrant community." You can learn more here.Was Trump-era jobless awful given that 1930s? CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left us the most awful unemployment since the Great Hard times". DECISION: This is actually incorrect. By the end of Trump's condition of office in January 2021, the unemployment rate was 6.4%. But it has been greater given that the Great Depression.In October 2009, joblessness topped at 10% within of deeper economical recession. It has actually fallen progressively since, aside from a sharp peak during the course of the Covid pandemic, and in the best latest records for August 2024, unemployment stood up at 4.2%. Are countless folks coming into the US coming from jails as well as asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our company possess numerous people putting into our country from jails as well as prisons, from mental institutions and also insane asylums". VERDICT: There is actually no documentation for these kind of numbers.There have actually concerned 10 million encounters with travelers transition the United States boundary since January 2021. There are no openly offered figures on the number of of them have actually provided time in penitentiary or stem from mental institutions however there is some information on the amount of possess previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand understandings of people crossing the boundary unlawfully up until now this financial year (to September 2024) - and also where the Perimeter Patrol was able to inspect against law enforcement data banks - concerning 14,700 folks had previous criminal convictions.That's equivalent to approximately 1% of all boundary ideas within this time period as well as does not amount to the "millions" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump sign a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to be re-elected, he is going to sign a nationwide abortion ban". DECISION: This is actually deceptive. Trump has actually refused that he would certainly authorize a nationwide ban if chosen president. He has said that he would leave limits on abortion access as much as individual states to decide.Here, Harris likewise spoke about "his Job 2025" - a referral to a document posted by the conservative Ancestry Groundwork outlining a list of plan propositions that they strongly believe a Trump presidency should implement.It doesn't suggest a national restriction either, however it carries out highly recommend confining abortion access.Trump has actually outdoed themself coming from the record, claiming: "I recognize nothing concerning Job 2025. I have no suggestion who is behind it." Numerous past Trump management authorities are connected with Project 2025. Was actually rising cost of living under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "The most awful rising cost of living our team've ever before possessed" [was under Biden] DECISION: This is false. Under Head of state Biden, inflation reached the top at 9.1% in June 2022, at a time when rates were actually climbing dramatically in many nations. Rising cost of living was actually final over 9% in 1981, yet it has been substantially higher than that at a number of other factors in United States history.Since its own top in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually gone down to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. But rates are actually still increasing and also it is actually a crucial concern for several voters.Would Trump tariffs cost households $4,000? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Economic experts have mentioned that that Trump sales tax will really result for center lesson family members in about $4,000 additional a year". DECISION: Harris names Trump's proposed income tax on bring ins a sales tax obligation. Some economists have estimated that these tolls could set you back family members this a lot. Others possess lower price quotes. Trump asserts the expense would certainly be actually believed through international nations however economic experts feel there would certainly be actually an economical cost for United States international merchants as well as buyers. The $4,000 amount comes from study - due to the left-of-centre brain trust the Centre for American Progress - of Trump's guarantee to raise tariffs on all imported items to 10-20% and all goods imported from China to 60%. They took the quantity the US purchases in goods from abroad every year, identified how much the brand new tax obligations on these items would be and also split this due to the amount of homes in the US.It works out at $4,600 every household, however when you consider "center earnings" households you obtain a figure of $3,900 a year.Other quotes are lower. The Peterson Principle assumes the influence would be closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or $2,500 (at 20%). Is actually criminal activity down in Venezuela since it is actually sending lawbreakers to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is way down because they have actually taken their offenders off the streets and provided to her [Harris] to put into our nation". JUDGMENT: There is no proof that Venezuela is performing this. Unlawful act degrees are down but pros mention this is because of the state of the economy. The Venezuelan authorities performs certainly not publish trusted criminal activity figures, but the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Physical violence does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly report said that fierce fatalities that year - including murders - were down through an one-fourth reviewed to 2022. The Observatory said to BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is lowered in Venezuela through a decrease in criminal offense opportunities: financial institution robberies fade away since there is no amount of money to take kidnappings are actually decreased considering that there is actually no money to spend ransoms." It stated it had actually viewed no evidence that the Venezuelan authorities was sending out wrongdoers to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.