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| Trump acquitted by Senate on articles of impeachment for abuse of power |
| 2020-02-05 |
| [WXYZ - ABC Detroit] President Donald Trump has been acquitted on both articles of impeachment on Wednesday by the United States Senate, the first article by a mostly party-line vote of 48-52 in favor of conviction. The vote on the second article of impeachment ended with 47 Democrats voting guilty, while all 53 Republicans voted not guilty. A two-thirds vote is required to remove a president from office. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah was the lone Republican joining all 47 Democrats in voting in favor of removing Trump from office on the first article of impeachment. Romney, the Republican Party's 2012 standard-bearer, became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to remove a president from the same party. "I will tell my children and their children that I did my duty to the best of my ability, believing that my country expected it of me," Romney said. "I will only be one name among many, no more or less, to future generations of Americans who look at the record of this trial." It was not known until late on Wednesday how Romney and some Democrats from states that voted for Trump in 2016 would vote. West Virginia's Joe Manchin and Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema both announced they would vote in favor of conviction moments before Wednesday's vote. The first article was for abuse of power, and accused Trump of, "Using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 United States Presidential election." The second article is for obstruction of Congress, as House Democrats accused Trump of blocking witnesses and evidence from the White House as part of the House's impeachment inquiry. In December, Trump became the third sitting US president to be impeached by the House, following Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. Both Johnson and Clinton were also acquitted. Johnson avoided being removed from office by a single vote. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #20 18 US 2071 code. Could someone read that to see what happens to a person who mutilates a document entered into the Congressional Record such as the SOTU Speach? |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-05 23:27 |
| #19 Next time Romney comes up for election, he needs to be primaries out. We got rid of Flake but he seems to have returned. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-05 22:26 |
| #18 Frank G killed Kirk Douglas |
| Posted by: Chris 2020-02-05 21:06 |
| #17 Does anyone have a breakdown of the vote by state? It doesn't seem to exist in google yet. |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-02-05 20:33 |
| #16 She's got 16 more years to go to beat the record. I give her until July. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-02-05 20:29 |
| #15 Great timing there, Frank G! |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-02-05 20:28 |
| #14 ^ Uh oh! |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-02-05 20:27 |
| #13 Kirk Douglas just passed away |
| Posted by: Airandee 2020-02-05 19:46 |
| #12 She won't make it. She's not Kirk Douglas |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-02-05 19:36 |
| #11 RBG will not resign until there is a Democratic president. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-02-05 19:27 |
| #10 RBG should announce her retirement this week. Perfect storm for the Dems. |
| Posted by: Thaise Guelph8492 2020-02-05 19:21 |
| #9 Pierre Defecto |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-05 18:10 |
| #8 A coup by the swamp fails, barely. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-05 17:49 |
| #7 Manchin didn't and Romney did. As expected the Democrats closed ranks and Romney did his (poor) Brutus impression... |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-02-05 17:46 |
| #6 OK, AG Barr, you are on deck, or you better be. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2020-02-05 16:54 |
| #5 Set as today’s headline. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-02-05 16:51 |
| #4 Frank G, no surprise really. The Dems would have had to turn 20 or so Republican Senators in order to actually convict Trump. Any witnesses would have just prolonged the agony. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-02-05 16:48 |
| #3 NOT GUILTY on Both Articles |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-02-05 16:45 |
| #2 Top Romney Adviser Worked With Hunter Biden On Board Of Ukrainian Energy Company Oft 'tis startling to reveal what the murky depths conceal. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-05 16:39 |
| #1 Some crossover on both sides, but a majority (I know, 67 needed) voted Not Guilty. Go suck on it demoncrats. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-02-05 16:34 |