Donald Trump is now the only U.S. president to have been impeached (and acquitted) twice. A majority of the Senate (57-43) voted to convict Trump for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, but the tally fell short of the two-thirds required to convict. Seven Republicans joined all Democrats in voting "guilty." Now America must wrestle with these questions: Are we in a post-Trump era? Or will the former president remain a force in our political system?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial centered on a phone call Americans never heard with the leader of a country very far away. The trial went on for two weeks of he-said-she-said. There was a mountain of evidence to pore over but not one drop of blood to see. Trump’s second …
After voting to acquit Donald Trump, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) condemned the former president as "practically and morally …
WASHINGTON – Seven Republican senators voted to convict Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial Saturday, siding with Democrats in a major rebuke of the former president for his role in the deadly Capitol riots on Jan. 6. Though Trump was acquitted, the 57-43 Senate vote against Trump was the …
The impeachment managers in Donald Trump's trial spent Friday night and Saturday morning wrestling with the question themselves. When Senate Democrats stepped onto the floor on Saturday morning, they had no idea the House impeachment managers were about to drop a political grenade in their laps. But …
The Senate's action also has profound implications for the Democratic party. WASHINGTON — The Republican civil war ended on Feb. 13, 2021. Donald Trump won. The decision by most GOP senators to acquit Trump in the 57-43 vote on a charge of incitement of insurrection demonstrates that there remains …
WASHINGTON – Hours before Senate Republicans acquitted Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, a GOP House member nearly knocked if off track. Senate Republicans had to beat back last-minute Democrat demands to call witnesses after Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.– who had backed …
Washington (CNN) — Del. Stacey Plaskett on Sunday defended the Democratic House managers' decision not to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial, saying a day after Trump's acquittal that they "needed more senators with spines" in order to convict him. "I know …
President Biden on late Saturday night issued a statement on the acquittal of former President Trump, in which he said that he was thinking about …
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler thrust herself into the national spotlight on Friday when the Washington Republican came out with a stunning account of Donald Trump's actions on the day of the Capitol insurrection. In a statement put out on the eve of the vote in Trump's Senate impeachment trial, …
The Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on the charge he incited an insurrection at the Capitol, ending a weeklong impeachment trial. Photo Illustration: Laura Kammermann
