The vote by 43 of the 50 Republican senators to acquit Trump on the charge of inciting last month’s deadly riot at the US Capitol, with only seven voting for conviction, highlights just how powerful a grip he has on the party he remade in his image over the past five years.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) tells Lawrence O'Donnell that the inability of Donald Trump's lawyers to answer what he did to stop the Capitol insurrection was "deeply offensive" because of "how very close we came to even greater disaster."