The US Senate has voted to acquit President Donald Trump of impeachment charges brought by the House Democrats, ending the attempt to oust him from the White House ahead of the November 2020 elections.
The process kicked off in September 2019, over allegations that Trump improperly sought foreign influence in the 2020 election by demanding a corruption investigation in Ukraine.

Last week, the Senate rejected a proposal by Democrats to call additional witnesses, in a 49-51 vote that saw Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) cross the aisle. The president’s lawyers argued that all the relevant testimonies and documents should have been produced during the proceedings in the House, which ended on December 18, 2019 with a partisan vote to impeach Trump.

No House Republicans supported the articles of impeachment. They were joined by two Democrats who voted against the first article and three who voted against the second, while another – presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) – voted “present” on both.

Even though the Democrats argued that impeachment was necessary because Trump was a “clear and present danger” to “our democracy,” House Speaker Nancy then waited four weeks to send the case to the Senate.

There, Democrats argued that additional witnesses were needed to establish the exact circumstances of Trump’s decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine in order to – they claimed – pressure the government in Kiev into investigating a political rival ahead of the 2020 election.

The claim originated with an unnamed intelligence community “whistleblower,” who alerted House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-California) of the phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July 2019. Schiff and his team of impeachment managers argued that Trump withholding the aid was an attempt at pressuring Kiev into investigating corruption at Burisma, a gas company that had hired the son of Vice President Joe Biden in 2014.

Biden is now one of the candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination, and Democrats argued this amounted to foreign interference in the election. Calling this an abuse of power, Democrats also charged Trump with “obstruction of Congress” for invoking executive privilege and refusing to allow some of the White House officials to testify in impeachment proceedings.

Trump’s lawyers argued that Schiff’s subpoenas had no validity until the House voted to actually authorize the impeachment process, on October 31. They also said that the president’s actions were perfectly consistent with his constitutional authority, that investigating Burisma did not amount to Ukrainian interference in US elections, and that Trump was denied due process rights because Democrats did not give the Republican minority a hearing day or the right to call their own witnesses

The acquittal comes a day after Trump’s triumphant State of the Union speech, and the embarrassing fiasco of the Democrats’ caucuses in Iowa, where even according to incomplete and questionable results, Biden ended up fourth.

Trump is only the third US president ever to be impeached in the House, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999. In all three cases, the impeachment failed in the Senate, allowing the president to stay in office. Contrary to popular opinion, Richard Nixon was never impeached – he resigned before the official proceedings could begin, in August 1973.

https://www.rt.com/usa/480169-senate-acquits-trump-impeachment/

-Good. My namesake is innocent. The Do-Nothing Democrats (the Party of KKK and Slavery) are deranged and truly bitter beings.

-Just seconds after acquittal, DOW shuts up by 483 bloody points. Amazing. And this means more Jobs.

-God bless PDJT.

Pelosi Nancy can die

It was dead on arrival but did cause media panic.

Trump is acquitted. Trump is still president of the USA.

GOD bless Donald J. Trump

Pelos and Schiff and all leftist should kiss the ass of Trump

Sunnycliff:
Pelos and Schiff and all leftist should kiss the ass of Trump

Mitt Romney too and lest I forget the whole fcking CNN crew.

YanshmasterGee:
Mitt Romney too and lest I forget the whole fcking CNN crew.

CNN, ABC shame on them

How will those Representatives be feeling now? Or they were just eager to make history?

As expected....
This shouldn't come as a surprise

What a waste of Nancy's efforts
We obviously knew this will lead nowhere
She should sort out her personal issues with Trump and not drag US politics into it.

Even if few Republicans don't like Trump, does she think they would sacrifice that seat to Democrats. At the State of the Union address, they were already chanting '4 more years'

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They have nothing on Trump,the man sure knows how to cover his tracks

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we all knew

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Old news! This we know will happen.

He can only be impeached in the lower house control by Democrat. Republican control Senate.

It's like Nigeria Senate trying to impeach Buba. It is impossible.

Those Democrats at the representative just wasted their time on a lost cause from the very start


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Mitt Romney is the G.O.A.T. voted in support of Trump's impeachment

I long predicted this. The Democrats have the HoR in the bag while Republicans have the Senate. It was never rocket science and all of Pelosi's huffing and puffing is for nothing.

Now that Trump's impeachment trial is over, Pelosi will now be dragged on Twitter by Trump himself. Romney sealed the deal in all of this.

And Trump still remains the president of the US.So what now becomes of Nancy Pelosi? Shame on Democrats.

Finally!!!

Good for him.
I need a job.

I knew it will never happen

Hmmmm. Finally

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Wetin you expect before?

Pelosi abi peruzzi how market?
I hope trump tore up the impeachment documents in front of her and threw the pieces of paper on her head.

Naso b4 na

He will still win re-election by November

Case dismissed... Coooooouuuurrrrtttt!

I hate Democrats and their policies, especially the evil ones of Barack Obama. The Republican Party is better for the world. Ride on Trump!

If e pain you, just look for the nearest bush and eat dry shit!!!

Well, I know some folks won't sleep well tonight. Especially, that dude who sells audio barbeque.

They think American Republicans will allow the sentiments of democrats and leftists to be cloud their sense of reasoning.

Trump till 2024.

I know it's a total joke. If care is not taken he will do another 4 years. Oya trump congrats