Trump raises some valid points about the need to prevent Iran from funding militant groups that attack Israel, but he makes some exaggerated statements that undermine the overall persuasiveness of his arguments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• While at other times in this debate, Trump uses immigration as a red herring to distract from the current topic, we do not find that to be the case when he says, in this segment of the debate:

She's the one... that's weak on national security by allowing every nation last month for the year, 168 different countries sending people into our country.

Taken out of context, this remark might seem to be a deflection from the moderator's topic of the Israel-Hamas war. However, Harris had just broadened the topic to national security in general, saying "Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy," her implication being that she would be stronger than Trump on national security issues overall.

Trump is entitled to combat that very implication with what he sees as a glaring counter-example - even if his specific argument about immigration is debatable.

Given the broader topic of "national security and foreign policy," it is not a red herring either for Trump to mention Biden's handling of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a project which has major implications for foreign policy with respect to Europe. But see below for how Trump overstates his case on this.

1. slippery slope • Trump's claim that Israel would cease to exist within two years if Harris became president is an extreme exaggeration that disregards the many checks and balances in place.

If she's president, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now.

The prediction gives no explanation for why this result is supposedly inevitable despite Israel's military capabilities, international support, and Harris's stated commitment to a two-state solution.

2. cherry picking • Trump uses partial information and debatable semantics to make it sound as if Biden approved the very creation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline:

Why does Biden... approve the single biggest deal that Russia's ever made, Nord Stream 2, the biggest pipeline anywhere in the world going to Germany and all over Europe?

This ignores that the pipeline was already 90% built when, at the request of Germany, Biden waived the sanctions that Trump had created against the company building the pipeline. Those sanctions had slowed but not stopped its ongoing construction.

We leave it to the reader to judge if waiving sanctions on a 90% completed pipeline implies "approving" it.

3. loaded language • Trump uses emotionally charged language to describe Harris's attitude toward Israel.

When she mentions about Israel all of a sudden -- she hates Israel. She wouldn't even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress to make a very important speech.

While Harris has expressed criticisms of Israel's handling of the conflict in Gaza, she has also voiced support for Israel in general. Saying she "hates" Israel is an exaggerated description intended to evoke an emotional response from the audience against Harris.