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Trump Becomes First President to Be Impeached Twice

Published 01/13/2021, 03:04 PM
Updated 01/13/2021, 03:26 PM
© Reuters.

By Yasin Ebrahim

Investing.com - The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice.

The House voted 232 to 197 to approve an article of impeachment charging Trump with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the moments leading up to the siege on the Capitol, Trump had urged his loyalists to “fight like hell,” as he continued to claim, without evidence, that the election result was a fraud.  Ten Republicans joined Democrats in the yes column.

Trump now faces a trial in the Senate, where he is widely expected to be acquitted. A conviction in the Senate requires a two-thirds majority, meaning 17 Republicans would have vote alongside the 50 Democrats to impeach the president.     

The impeachment trail in the Senate is not expected to get underway before Jan. 19 after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected demands to call an emergency session. President-elect Joe Biden is set to be sworn in on Jan. 20.

Early on Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence declined to invoke the 25th Amendment that would have led to Trump's immediate removal.  

Trump was previously impeached on Dec. 18, 2019, on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. 

Latest comments

Nancy the Machiavelian princess eliminates her toughest competitor.
Good lesson for some
Lock him up..
Agreed
They did it cause they fear him. So he cannot run for next elections
Joe Biden becomes first President elect to have video confession of a crime Ukranian Prosecutor Firing bragging
Will soon be the first president in JAIL
No offense. But Such a pity, he was the only one who could do something to stop terrorism! Sorry to see him go
This is not about hated sides by the two parties but it's best to the country as a whole and around the world....so Trump will carry his mistakes and misbehavior with him....
stock exchange and precious metals dow Jones industrial going down impeachment creates no got electro lite business
Whay are liberals shutting down free speech? Why are they using the NA. ZI play book? Liberals please explain thanks!
if you send your opinion piece to the editor of a newspaper there under no obligation to print it. also having people plan ****acts on your platform is a bad business model.
if you send your opinion piece to the editor of a newspaper there under no obligation to print it. also having people plan ***acts on your platform is a bad business model.
Oh yeah Amazon is so liberal (rofl)
Secretary Not Sure rehabilitation part deux
what a joke
Mitch McConnell is not the Senate minority leader!
I dislike Trump a lot. But completely disagree with the precedent this sets. Guaranteed this comes back to ********the dems.
It sets a gar worse precedent if they do nothing.
Trump boasts: I won two yuge impeachments. No one has ever done that.
We are going to drain the swamp in 7 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you mean restock the swamp
 good riddance to trash.
Racist attack in the Capital by Trump supportersGet Real. Youve hit to be drinking you FoolsAnd Omar and Waters and Nadler are talking about racism and lawlessness
Split into 2 .. America for the poor by the poor and of the poor AND the other America for the rich by the rich of the rich. In Dollar we trust
funny the economy has done better when a democrat is in power 16 of the last 36 yrs and each time the new dem pres has had to clean up after the GOP tanked the economy - ironic all the russian bots call them socialist - what they are is the party of all the people not just the wealthy 1%! When the economy flourish's it benefits all americans of every class! Unlike when the GOP is in power and they give big tac breaks to the wealthy! Which has always caused increases to the american debt load! Both Clinton and Obama left lower deficits when they left office something no GOP president has done in the last 40+ years! Funny how all you right wingers can't seem to get that!
It takes at least 4 years for good Republican policies to undo the damage of the dems who exploit the poor for votes, keeping them poor and starving for handouts.....sad
Kool aid drinker!
Exactly. Republicans love looting the villages and salting the fields on their way out.
The left has gone full scale unhinged. Still this move certified DJT the most pro-America president this country has ever had.
I and you smell the commies mikws away :)
LIBERALS ARE SO FULL OF HATE
Bots
The left has gone full scale unhinged. Still this move certified DJT the most pro-America president this country has ever had.
The left has gone full scale unhinged. Still this move certified DJT the most pro-America president this country has ever had.
I think its scary how much power the social media, and media in general, have over companies. Whatever your outlook or beliefs, the fact that FB, Amazon and Google can effectively shut down Parler and silence all opposing views or highlight certain news topics is insane. This is an abuse of power. Didnt vote for Trump for the people who think I'm pandering to the right.
"without evidence" ...from under what rock did you just crawl out ebrahim...
When will americans learn that democrats are the party of the mega rich... watch them reinstate the SALT tax... this is only a tax deduction for very wealthy... then raise huge taxes on corporations that get passed to the moslty middle class... the democrat party needs a permanent underclass to survive...
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