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The Senate’s Awful Reasons for Acquitting Trump Slate 2/19/2021 William Saletan © Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Capitol on Saturday. Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Once again, Donald Trump has escaped conviction. On Saturday, despite plenty of evidence that he had incited the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, 43 senators voted to acquit him in his second impeachment trial. That was enough to get Trump off the hook a two-thirds majority was needed to convict him but it blurs important differences among those who acquitted him. Twelve of them, while voting against conviction because Trump was no longer president, explicitly deplored his behavior or assigned him some blame for the attack. One of the 12, Sen. Rob Portman, said Trump had violated his oath of office. Another, Sen. Thom Tillis, held out the option to convict him if a more “thorough” case were presented. These 12 senators, combined with the 57 who voted to convict,

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