“This is a victory for democracy and freedom. This is a victory of the moral force of our values,” Mr. Bush said in a nationally televised address.
It appeared democracy and free markets had triumphed, were on the march, and would become the foundation of a new and peaceful international order or at least that was what the U.S. president envisioned. Just months earlier, Mr. Gorbachev had given his blessing to Mr. Bush’s decision to expel Saddam Hussein’s Iraq from Kuwait, a move that would have been unthinkable at the height of the Cold War because Iraq was an old Soviet ally.
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A presidential historian said Trump has a permanent black mark from two impeachments.
Many GOP senators voted for acquittal to avoid self-indictment, an expert said. You ve gotta remember you ve already won.
That s what GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said he told President Donald Trump s legal team amid the former commander-in-chief s second impeachment trial. Cruz was right. Trump was destined to be acquitted, and virtually everyone knew it before the trial even began.
As expected, the vast majority of Senate Republicans voted to acquit Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection in spite of the glaring, damning evidence against him.
On impeachment, stakes are high not only for Trump but also for almost everybody else Susan Page, USA TODAY
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The consequences of the Senate impeachment trial that opens Tuesday could be considerable for former President Donald Trump.
And for almost everybody else.
Trump, accustomed to earning the word unprecedented while he was in office over the past four years, will do it again out of office: the first president to be impeached twice, and the first to face that historic rebuke even after he had moved out of the White House. That s not the sort of distinction presidents typically aspire to.