President Donald Trump took a victory lap on Thursday after Senate Republicans acquitted him of the two charges against him following a bitter impeachment trial.

"It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops," Trump said of his impeachment trial. "It was leakers and liars, and this should never, ever happen to another president, ever."

"If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already — many, many years," Trump added.

The president also singled out Sen. Mitt Romney, the lone Republican who sided with Democrats to vote to convict and remove Trump from office, and accused Romney of using religion "as a crutch."

Here's a rundown of what Trump said and how it stacks up with reality.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday gave a speech to celebrate that the Republican-controlled Senate acquitted him of two charges following a bitter impeachment trial.

Here's a rundown of what Trump said and how it stacks up with reality

What Trump said: His impeachment was a "war," and he was treated "unbelievably unfairly" by "dirty" intelligence officials, including former FBI Director James Comey. "It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops. It was leakers and liars, and this should never, ever happen to another president, ever. I don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it," he said, adding, "If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already — many, many years." Fact check: Trump is correct that what he went through was a unique occurrence in American history. The FBI had never investigated whether a presidential campaign conspired with a foreign government to tilt a US election in one direction. Ultimately, the special counsel Robert Mueller found that although the Trump campaign did not conspire with Russia to swing the 2016 election in his favor, the campaign enthusiastically welcomed Russia's interference and expected to benefit from it. Trump is also the first US president to publicly call for multiple foreign powers to investigate or damage his political rivals. In July 2016, he asked Russia to recover the 30,000 emails that were missing from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server. And since last year, Trump has called for Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter over unfounded allegations of corruption.

His impeachment was a "war," and he was treated "unbelievably unfairly" by "dirty" intelligence officials, including former FBI Director James Comey. "It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops. It was leakers and liars, and this should never, ever happen to another president, ever. I don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it," he said, adding, "If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already — many, many years." What Trump said: "A corrupt politician named Adam Schiff made up my statement to the Ukrainian president. He brought it out of thin air. Just made it up." Fact check: Trump was referring to the way that Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the lead impeachment manager, characterized his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, Trump repeatedly asked Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US election. Schiff was paraphrasing the call when he first described it. He said as much before detailing "the essence of what the president communicates" and not "the exact transcribed version of the call." Trump has accused Schiff of treason, a crime punishable by death.

"A corrupt politician named Adam Schiff made up my statement to the Ukrainian president. He brought it out of thin air. Just made it up." What Trump said: "If we didn't win, the stock market would have crashed, and the market was going up a lot before the election because it was looking like we had a good chance to win," Trump said. "And then it went up tremendously from the time we won the election to the time we took office ... That's all our credit." Fact check: The stock market was on an upswing for a while before Trump took office. And while it's performed well under Trump — in large part because his administration has strongly pushed for financial deregulation — it's not unprecedented. As of December, the stock-market rally still lagged behind its performance under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

"If we didn't win, the stock market would have crashed, and the market was going up a lot before the election because it was looking like we had a good chance to win," Trump said. "And then it went up tremendously from the time we won the election to the time we took office ... That's all our credit." What Trump said: Trump accused Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the lone Republican senator who voted with Democrats to convict and remove Trump from office, of using his religion "as a crutch." Trump boasted that his own poll numbers in Utah were "through the roof" while Romney's "went down big." Fact check: A recent poll found that Trump's approval rating in Utah was 53% while Romney's was 52%.

Trump accused Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the lone Republican senator who voted with Democrats to convict and remove Trump from office, of using his religion "as a crutch." Trump boasted that his own poll numbers in Utah were "through the roof" while Romney's "went down big." What Trump said: The US and Ukraine have a treaty "that we will work together to root out corruption in Ukraine," Trump said. "I probably have a legal obligation, Mr. Attorney, to report corruption. But they don't think it's corrupt when a son that made no money, that got thrown out of the military, that had no money at all, is working for $3 million up front, $83,000 a month — and that's only Ukraine — then goes to China, picks up $1.5 billion, then goes to Romania, I hear, and many other countries." Fact check: Trump was referring to Hunter Biden's employment on the board of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings. While ethics experts have said the younger Biden's work for the company could have posed conflicts of interest, there is no evidence that Hunter or Joe Biden engaged in any corrupt activities related to Burisma. The Bidens and Burisma were at the center of Trump's impeachment. Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested Joe Biden inappropriately used his role as vice president in 2016 to push for the ouster of Viktor Shokin, then Ukraine's prosecutor general, to stymie Shokin's investigation into Burisma. Trump and Giuliani have said that was why the president asked Zelensky to investigate the Bidens. But the investigation was dormant when Biden called for Shokin's ouster. Moreover, Biden was representing the US's official position, as well as that of the rest of the Western world and financial institutions, when he demanded Shokin be fired for corruption. There is also no evidence that Trump showed an interest in rooting out corruption in Ukraine before Biden's decision to run for president.

The US and Ukraine have a treaty "that we will work together to root out corruption in Ukraine," Trump said. "I probably have a legal obligation, Mr. Attorney, to report corruption. But they don't think it's corrupt when a son that made no money, that got thrown out of the military, that had no money at all, is working for $3 million up front, $83,000 a month — and that's only Ukraine — then goes to China, picks up $1.5 billion, then goes to Romania, I hear, and many other countries." What Trump said: Trump asked why other European countries weren't paying more to help Ukraine. Fact check: Iain King, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, last year found that European nations had contributed roughly two-thirds of all aid to Ukraine since Russia annexed the territory of Crimea in 2014 and began encroaching in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.

Trump asked why other European countries weren't paying more to help Ukraine. What Trump said: Democrats "took a phone call that was a totally appropriate call — I call it a perfect call, because it was — and they brought me to the final stages of impeachment." Fact check: Multiple firsthand witnesses who listened in on the July 25 call testified that they found it "unusual," "inappropriate," and "improper." Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council and one of the people who heard the call, reported it to John Eisenberg, the NSC's chief lawyer. The whistleblower complaint detailing the call said that multiple White House officials were alarmed by it and that White House lawyers believed they had witnessed the president violating campaign-finance laws by asking Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Eisenberg told Vindman not to tell anyone else about what he heard, and a transcript of the phone call was moved to a top-secret codeword NSC server typically used to house sensitive information pertaining to national security. The White House released a partial summary of the call that later became one of the central primary documents in Trump's impeachment trial.

Democrats "took a phone call that was a totally appropriate call — I call it a perfect call, because it was — and they brought me to the final stages of impeachment." What Trump said: "I love the FBI and the FBI loves me, 99 percent." Fact check: This appears to be an exaggeration — there is no publicly available polling showing FBI employees' support for the president. Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders similarly claimed in 2017 that she "heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president's decision" to fire former FBI Director James Comey. She later admitted to then-special counsel Bob Mueller that the claim was false.

"I love the FBI and the FBI loves me, 99 percent." What Trump said: "We had for the first time in 51 years where drug prices actually came down last year. First time in 51 years" Fact check : Politifact rated this claim "mostly false" because there is no solid evidence to support it, and, according to federal government data, drug prices actually increased between April 2018 and April 2019.

"We had for the first time in 51 years where drug prices actually came down last year. First time in 51 years"

Romney sent shockwaves through Washington when he announced on Wednesday that he would vote to oust the president.

"Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine," Romney said, adding that he expected to face harsh blowback from members of his own party for his decision to break ranks.

"Does anyone seriously believe that I would consent to these consequences, other than from an inescapable conviction that my oath before God demanded it of me?" he said.

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 52-48 to acquit Trump of abuse of power and 53-47 to acquit him of the obstruction charge.

For weeks, the president's lawyers have described the impeachment process against Trump as a partisan "sham." The White House was also said to have courted some Democratic swing votes before the final vote, like Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, in hopes of a bipartisan acquittal. But Manchin sided with the rest of the Senate Democratic caucus to call for Trump's removal.

Meanwhile, Romney's vote made Trump's impeachment the first time in US history that a member of the president's own party voted to remove him from office. It was also the first time that the entire opposing party voted to convict the president.