WASHINGTON: The US Senate voted on Saturday to allow witnesses at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, a surprise move likely to prolong the proceedings, even as the top Republican senator said he.
In the end, America’s controversial ex-president survived his second trial in the Senate. While 57 out of 100 senators in that body voted to convict him, that was still fewer than the required two-thirds of senators present and voting.
Ultimately, seven Republican senators broke ranks with their party and voted with the 50 Democrats, producing the most bipartisan of any impeachment trial in the past. Historically, there have been four trials of presidents: Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, twice.
Led by Representative Jamie Raskin, the House of Representatives’ trial managers gave a compelling recapitulation of the 6 January mob attack on the Capitol and traced it back through the full four years of the 45th president’s time in office. In essence, their argument was the then-president had groomed his followers for years into believing he was the inevitable choice of American voters, and that if he lost, it could only be through vote-rigging, other cheating, and s
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Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. He was acquitted by the Senate on Saturday in his second impeachment trial.
Impeachment, Vaccine Allocation And Fairness
The biggest news of the week, of course, was that after just a five-day trial, the Senate voted Saturday to acquit former President Trump in his impeachment. It was what most people expected, but was it right? One of the biggest surprises was that Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina was one of seven Republicans to submit a guilty vote. Was it fair for him to vote Trump was guilty of inciting an insurrection after voting that it wasn t constitutional to impeach the former president in the first place?
"While a close call, I am persuaded that impeachments are a tool primarily of removal and we therefore lack jurisdiction," McConnell wrote in an email to colleagues Saturday.
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