RESEARCH PROJECT

Facts First: This claim is absurd. Trump did not win any vote related to impeachment,
let alone win “196 to nothing.” In fact, he had decisively lost a key process vote and then
the two votes to actually impeach him. He appeared to be referring to the fact that no
Republican voted against him on these three occasions, but he wasn’t clear at all that
this is what he meant.

The Democratic-controlled House voted 232-196 in October in favor of the Democrats’

proposed rules for the impeachment inquiry. (That is possibly the basis of Trump’s “196”
figure in this quote, but the claim that “we won 196 to nothing” remains nonsensical.)
The House voted 230-197 and 229-198 in December on the two articles of
impeachment

A handful of protesters interrupted President Trump at the beginning of his Ohio rally
tonight.

“Go home to Mommy!” Trump said to the crowd as the protesters were taken out.
“Thank you security. Do we love law enforcement by the way?

After a protester was loudly booed out of the audience, Trump resumed talking about
the military. He repeated one of his most frequent claims, that he has "taken care of our
vets with choice."

Facts First: The Veterans Choice bill, a bipartisan initiative led by Sen. Bernie Sanders
and the late John McCain, was signed into law by former President Barack Obama in
2014. In 2018, Trump signed the VA Mission Act, which expanded and changed the
program.

Trump also made two false claims on the environment at his rally tonight.

He said, "the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas
anywhere in the world."

Facts First: The US has not just “now” become the world’s top energy producer: it took
the top spot in 2012, according to the US government’s Energy Information
Administration – under the very Obama administration Trump is accusing of
perpetrating a “war” on the industry.

The US became the top producer of crude oil in particular during Trump’s tenure. “The
United States has been the world’s top producer of natural gas since 2009, when US
natural gas production surpassed that of Russia, and it has been the world’s top
producer of petroleum hydrocarbons since 2013, when its production exceeded Saudi
Arabia’s,” the Energy Information Administration said.

Trump said that "our air and our water right now is cleaner than it's been in 40 years."

Facts First: By several measures, US air was cleaner under Obama than it has
been under Trump.

There were more “unhealthy air days” for sensitive groups in 2018 than in 2016.
Additionally, the lowest amount of unhealthy air days – 598 – occurred in 2014 under
Obama. You can read more