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At the conclusion of the trial, the Senate voted 57–43 to convict Trump of inciting insurrection, falling 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution, and Trump was therefore acquitted. Seven Republican senators joined all Democratic and independent senators in voting to convict Trump, the largest bipartisan vote ...
In an early rebuke of Trump’s defense strategy, six Republican senators joined all 50 Democrats in voting 56-44 to confirm he can stand trial despite being out of office.
Trump's Senate impeachment trial over the Capitol siege began on Tuesday afternoon. 6 Republicans broke ranks and voted with Democrats to declare Trump's impeachment trial constitutional after the ...
The first fully contested proceeding was Trump’s second impeachment trial. On Jan. 13, 2021, then-President Trump was impeached for “incitement of insurrection.”
After the Senate vote, President Trump released a statement calling the trial "yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country" and asserting that his movement had "only just begun." [224] He would then go one to win the 2024 presidential election, completing "The greatest political come back in American history". [225]
The preceding stage is the "impeachment" itself, held by a vote in the United States House of Representatives. [1] Federal impeachment trials are held in the United States Senate, with the senators acting as the jurors. At the end of a completed impeachment trial, the U.S. Senate delivers a verdict.
The U.S. Senate acquitted Donald Trump for a second time on Saturday, concluding a five-day impeachment trial. The former president, who has been impeached twice by the House of Representatives ...
On February 5, 2020, the Senate found Trump not guilty of abuse of power, by a vote of 48–52, with Republican senator Mitt Romney being the only senator—and the first senator in U.S. history—to cross party lines by voting to convict, [22] [23] and not guilty of obstruction of Congress, by a vote of 47–53.