âSNLâ tackles Trumpâs second impeachment trial, mocks his defense team and Republicans
By Shannon Larson Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 6:28 a.m.
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Kate McKinnon played South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and Aidy Bryant played Texas Senator Ted Cruz on this week s episode of Saturday Night Live. NBC
With Donald Trump again prominently featured in the news headlines â this time for his historic second impeachment trial â politics once more took center stage in this weekâs opening sketch of âSaturday Night Live.â
Only hours after the 57-43 vote that acquitted Trump for inciting the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 was finalized â which included seven Republicans in favor of impeaching the former president, but ultimately fell short of the two-thirds majority needed â the comedy sketch show presented a mock recap of the events that unfolded throughout the trial.
The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Saturday in his second impeachment trial in a year, with fellow Republicans blocking conviction over the former president’s role in the deadly assaul
The big story in the nation s capital this week was the second impeachment
trial and second acquittal of former President Trump, and we ll get to that
in the next segment.
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