The Senate found Mr. Trump not guilty on both articles of impeachment – abuse of power and obstruction of justice – on near party-line votes of 52 to 48 and 53 to 47, respectively
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.In this image from video, presiding officer Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts stands after gaveling the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump to an end in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.The Republican majority in the Senate has acquitted President Donald Trump, ending the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S.
The focus of American politics now turns from the halls of the Capitol to the 2020 campaign trail, where both sides are using impeachment to rally their bases. The episode could particularly affect Mr. Biden after Mr. Trump and his allies used the trial to air unproven accusations that the former vice-president had behaved underhandedly to help his son’s Ukrainian business interests.
“There is no greater subversion of our democracy than for powers outside of our borders to determine elections within them,” Mr. Schumer said on the Senate floor. “That’s the beginning of the end of democracy.” Mr. Trump, however, demonstrated no contrition. Rather, he is using impeachment as part of his re-election effort. At a rally in Iowa last week, the President called the trial a “deranged witch-hunt hoax.”
“This raising of the bar on what is impeachable is frightening to me,” said Prof. Perry, director of presidential studies at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. “That leads to authoritarianism.”A protester waves a US national flag upside down, in a sign of distress, outside the Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2020, after the US Senate acquited the US president in his impeachment trial.She compared his case with that of Richard Nixon.
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