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Trump Becomes First US President to be Impeached Twice
Donald Trump creates history by being the first US President to be impeached twice on a single charge of incitement of insurrection. This has been charged due to his involvement in a riot by his supporters that resulted in the death of five and the Capitol ransacked and has left an indelible stain on his legacy with just a week post the completion of his term.
However, 232-197 votes has made Trump the only US president to be impeached twice. This is a little more than the previous year since his first. Although, this move has been supported by all Democrats and 10 Republicans that include Liz Cheney, the third-ranking GOP leader in the House.
While commenting on the voting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi states, “We know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection," She called Trump “a clear and present danger to this country that we all love."
However, Nancy would now determine how quickly to send the impeachment article to the Senate for a trial. However, the senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has discarded Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s plea to agree to bring senators back for an emergency session and start the trial before January 20, when Trump leaves office and President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated.
Furthermore, the House speaker has signed the impeachment article Wednesday night, but hasn’t indicated whether she’ll delay transmitting it to the Senate. He has kept an iron grip on the Republican Party for most of his four years in office. But his stoking of the angry mob of supporters that stormed the Capitol on January 6 was too much for some in the GOP. Even Republicans who didn’t vote for his impeachment denounced his actions.
Trump, in a video released by the White House Wednesday evening, denounced the Capitol attack and called on Americans to avoid further violence. He did not mention the impeachment vote.
In a note Wednesday to his Republican colleague, McConnell wrote, “I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate."
The repercussions were wide. Major companies began a torrent of announcements that they would at least temporarily cut off contributions to lawmakers who joined Trump in false claims of electoral fraud and the attempt to block results of the Nov. 3 election. Twitter, which has served as Trump’s megaphone to his followers, banned him, and he was kicked off other platforms.
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