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re: TRUMP Wealth Tumbles as Court Cases & Creditors Loom
TRUMP Acquitted in Second Impeachment Trial
Final vote tally 57-43 but Senate fails to achieve two-thirds majority needed to convict former president of incitement
The Guardian, 13 FEB, 2021.
The former US president Donald Trump has been acquitted of inciting insurrection after last month's storming of the US Capitol building.
At the end of his impeachment trial the US Senate voted by 57 to 43 in support of the charges -- but short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him.
In a statement Mr Trump said his impeachment had been “another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of America”.
A conviction would have allowed the Senate to vote to disqualify him from holding future office.
Seven Republicans joined every Democrat to declare Trump guilty on the charge of “incitement of insurrection” after his months-long quest to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden and its deadly conclusion on 6 January, when Congress met to formalize the election results.
The 57-43 vote was most bipartisan support for conviction ever in a presidential impeachment trial. The result, which was never in doubt, reflected both the still raw anger of senators over Trump’s conduct as his supporters stormed the Capitol last month – and the vice-like grip the defeated president still holds over his party.
Among the Republicans who broke ranks were Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
At a news conference after the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced as “cowardly” those who voted to acquit Trump on procedural grounds and said she would refuse to entertain their calls for a censure.
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