BREAKING: Donald Trump Has Been Acquitted Of Both Articles Of Impeachment
Trump’s impeachment trial took just over two weeks, the shortest of the the three presidential impeachment trials in American history. The 1999 trial of Bill Clinton lasted five weeks and the 1868 trial of Andrew Johnson lasted over seven weeks.in December, over charges that he abused the powers of his office to withhold nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine in exchange for the country launching an investigation into the family of a political rival, former vice president Joe Biden.
Republicans rejected the charges against Trump as a politically-motivated attempt to overturn the results of the last election. It had long been clear that Trump would not be removed from office. Conviction required supermajority support of 67 out of 100 senators, and with Republicans controlling 53 seats this was never in play. Instead the key question became whether four or more Republicans would side with Democrats to call witnesses. In the end, only two — Romney and Susan Collins of Maine — did. Collins ultimately voted against both articles of impeachment.
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