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The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States (in office from 2017 to 2021), began on February 9, 2021, and concluded with his acquittal on February 13. Donald Trump had been impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives on January 13, 2021.
The House impeachment managers formally triggered the start of the impeachment trial on January 25 by walking across the Capitol and delivered to the Senate the charge against Trump. The nine managers were led into the Senate chamber by the lead impeachment manager, who read the article of impeachment. [ 1 ]
On February 5, 2020, the Senate voted to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment. [2] Trump's first impeachment took place after a formal House inquiry found that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and had then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration ...
Donald Trump on Saturday was acquitted by the U.S. Senate in his second impeachment trial in 12 months, as his fellow Republicans shielded him from accountability for the deadly assault by his ...
Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Tuesday against moving forward with Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial, making clear a conviction of the former president for “incitement ...
The articles of impeachment against President Trump. Under the U.S. Constitution, the House has the sole power of impeachment (Article I, Section 2, Clause 5), and after that action has been taken, the Senate has the sole power to hold the trial for all impeachments (Article I, Section 3, Clause 6).
Echoes of the 2020 impeachment trial against Donald Trump sparked a bitter exchange between California Senate candidates Rep. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey at the U.S. Senate Candidate Forum on ...
Shortly thereafter, former long-serving Republican congressman Tom Coleman (R-MO) also called for Trump's impeachment. [132] In addition, conservative attorney George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway, called for Trump's impeachment. [133] The Mueller Report was released on April 18, 2019, and Robert Mueller himself made follow-up comments on ...