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If an impeachment trial happens, it will likely be after the inauguration.
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What does it take to remove a president from office?Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Ten is either a huge number or a stunningly small one, depending on one s views of the state of partisanship and President Donald Trump s culpability for his words and actions.
But 10 Republicans won t be enough to bring true consequences to the soon-to-be-former president. That will fall to the Senate, where the focus will be in the early days of the Biden presidency, now that the House voted in the quickest and most bipartisan impeachment in American history.
The second impeachment of President Donald Trump by the U.S. House of Representatives, for inciting last week's deadly rampage at the Capitol, could set off a bitter Senate fight that entangles the early days of President-elect Joe Biden's term. Trump became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice when the House voted 232-197 on Wednesday to charge him with inciting the riot. Ten of Trump's fellow Republicans joined Democrats in approving the article of impeachment.