The Senate on Saturday acquitted Donald Trump in a 57-43 vote in his second impeachment trial—bringing the climatic trial to an end.
The votes came after five days of debate in the trial, with the Senate falling 10 votes short of the two-third majority required to convict the then president of the United States.
Trump was impeached by Republicans last month on a charge of what they called “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the deadly attack on the Capitol on early January.
There were seven Republican senators who joined Democrats to vote in favor of conviction, which would have allowed the Senate to vote to disqualify the former president from holding future office.
It was Trump’s second impeachment trial while the fourth of an impeached president. No president has ever been convicted.
Donald Trump was the only U.S. President to be impeached twice.
The Democrats argued that Trump purposely provoked a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol in an effort to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden in the presidential election.
Following his acquittal, the U.S. then President Trump issued a statement in which he thanked his team and said this was “yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country.”
Source: World Media
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