EXPLAINER: What s next after House impeachment vote? orissapost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from orissapost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
McConnell’s burgeoning alienation from Trump, plus the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him, underscored how the GOP’s long, reflexive support and condoning of Trump’s actions was eroding.
Now that U.S. President Donald Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives a second time, keeping him from holding office again could be Congress next step.
Trump could be the first US president in history to be impeached twice
Analysis from CNN s Stephen Collinson
President Trump boards Air Force One before departing Harlingen, Texas on January 12. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Before President Trump came to Washington, only two Presidents had been impeached in the near two-and-a-half century history of the United States.
But Trump is now staring at the shameful distinction of being impeached by the House of Representatives twice in just over a year – a sequence that will leave a deep scar in Washington for a generation – not least because despite his aberrant behavior, Trump retains strong support among Republican lawmakers because of his near mystical hold on the party s populist base.