Senate Rips Up Articles Of Impeachment In Donald Trump Trial

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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 SENATE’S VERDICT: TRUMP ABOVE THE LAW



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[Nikki28]

1. I like huff

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]

2. Pelosi still has enough ammo to impeach him at least 2 more times for different things.

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]

8. They wont

Its not how its done, ya see.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Well, Moscow Mitch said that they would cooperate with the WH rather than be impartial.

Well, Moscow Mitch said that they would cooperate with the WH rather than be impartial.

[SunSeeker]

4. No, REPUBLICANS ripped up the articles of impeachment. nt

[riversedge]

6. Correct.

[dchill]

10. They ripped up the Constitution.

[SunSeeker]

12. Yes, and their oaths. nt

[djacq]

5. 52 Senate Republicans need to be voted OUT.

They have all sanctioned that it's okay to cheat.



Thank goodness, I reside in the commonwealth of Virginia.

[quakerboy]

9. 53

Romney trying to walk the tight rope and split the difference doesn't give him a pass.

[displacedtexan]

7. Copycats.

Republicans are nothing if not predictable.

[TheFourthMind]

11. Time for the whole Confederate Party to go celebrate! I hear Wuhan is nice! n/t

[stopwastingmymoney]

13. I don't get it

Romney votes to convict on abuse of power but acquits on obstruction of Congress?

The obstruction seems so obviously factual