The Democrats’ attempts to remove President Donald Trump from office have failed after a Senate vote fully acquitted him on both articles of impeachment.
With Trump looking good for re-election this year, Republican senators voted to acquit their leader 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress.
In a statement following the verdict, Trump’s re-election campaign said the president had been “totally vindicated” and insisted it was “now time to get back to the business of the American people.”
“The do-nothing Democrats know they can’t beat him, so they had to impeach him,” they added, before lambasting the trial as “nonsense.”
“This impeachment hoax will go down as the worst miscalculation in American political history,” the campaign concluded.
Donald Trump will be the first impeached president in history to seek re-election.
Perhaps the most shocking vote of the night came from Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who defied his party and voted to convict the President on the first charge of abuse of power.
Romney cited his faith as informing his decision to vote against Trump. “I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious,” he declared ahead of the vote, according to the New York Post. “My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential.”
Romney’s blatant rejection of…
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