US Senate acquits President Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress following a historic two-week impeachment trial
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after participating in a video teleconference with members of the US military at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on December 24, 2019.
Two-thirds “guilty” votes would have been needed to reach the Constitution's bar of high crimes and misdemeanors to convict and remove Trump from office. Romney choked up as he said he drew on his faith and an “oath before God” to announce he would vote guilty on the first charge, abuse of power.Both Bill Clinton in 1999 and Andrew Johnson in 1868 drew cross-party support when they were left in office after an impeachment trial. President Richard Nixon resigned rather than face revolt from his own party.
During the nearly three-week trial, House Democrats prosecuting the case argued that Trump abused power like no other president in history when he pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, ahead of the 2020 election. In closing arguments for the trial the lead prosecutor, Rep Adam Schiff, D-Calif, appealed to senators' sense of decency, that “right matters” and “truth matters” and that Trump "is not who you are.''
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