Senate Rips Up Articles Of Impeachment In Donald Trump Trial
Source: huff post
02/05/2020 04:15 pm ET Updated 5 minutes ago
In a mockery of a trial, Republicans refused to call witnesses before acquitting the president.
By Elise Foley and Arthur Delaney
WASHINGTON ― Senators voted on Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump of abuse of power ― without first hearing from witnesses or examining new documents in his impeachment trial, and even though some Republicans agreed the president had done exactly what he was accused of.
The final vote on the first article of impeachment was 48-52, far short of the supermajority needed to convict.
Democrats were unified in voting to convict Trump. Only one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, wanted to convict the president for abuse of power.
On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, the Senate acquitted Trump by a vote of 47-53. (Romney voted to acquit the president on the second article.)
Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate a political rival ahead of the 2020 election, blocked Congress in its efforts to investigate his actions and now has been given the OK by the Senate.
He becomes the third president in U.S. history to be acquitted after being impeached in the House. But Trump has his own distinction: He is the only president to go through a Senate impeachment trial that heard from no witnesses. ....................
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THE SENATES VERDICT: TRUMP ABOVE THE LAW
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Nikki28
(557 posts)about Trump above the law. There has to be a way to put this is their faces daily.I pray we get another election and get rid of them,I just don't trust it.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)Its a gamble if she does it of course but to be honest at this point I think the Democrats need to take the chance and rub the Republicans corruption in their noses up until the day before the elections.
quakerboy
(13,921 posts)Its not how its done, ya see.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Well, Moscow Mitch said that they would cooperate with the WH rather than be impartial.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)djacq
(1,634 posts)They have all sanctioned that it's okay to cheat.
Thank goodness, I reside in the commonwealth of Virginia.
Romney trying to walk the tight rope and split the difference doesn't give him a pass.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Republicans are nothing if not predictable.
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)Romney votes to convict on abuse of power but acquits on obstruction of Congress?
The obstruction seems so obviously factual