Save this story for later. Last weekend, forty-three members of the United States Senate voted to acquit former President Donald J. Trump of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol, on January 6th, which claimed the life of a police officer and four protesters and could have resulted in the deaths of members of Congress. Fifty Democrats and seven Republicans voted to convict Trump, but they fell far short of the sixty-seven votes that would have made him, in addition to being the only President to be impeached twice, the first President to be convicted in a Senate trial. The Republicans who sided with the Democrats are already facing intense blowback from Republicans nationally, and some are facing it from their own state parties. As it stands, weaponizing a mob to lay siege to a coequal branch of government, and standing idly by as it ransacks Congress and hunts for elected officials, is apparently consistent with the Presidential oath to âpreserve, protect, and defendâ the Constitution. Or, at least, a Presidentâs weaponizing a mob is apparently not ground for keeping him out of office.