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Donald Trump faced his second impeachment trial despite no longer being president – an issue many GOP lawmakers raised as an objection ahead of the process. However, their attempts to block the case were unsuccessful and the trial proceeded over the course of five days when the sides presented their arguments and called witnesses.
On Friday, the US Senate completed a question and answer session after interviewing House managers, who act as prosecutors, and the former president’s lawyers.
In an unsurprising decision, 57 US senators, including 7 Republicans, backed the impeachment article, while 43 voted against it in the Saturday vote, acquitting former US President Donald Trump. A conviction would have required a two-thirds majority, or 67 senators.
US immigration services have seen a rise in the number of new arrivals in recent weeks, while the latest migrant caravan of up to 9,000 people marching from Honduras is yet to reach the southern border.
After an aide for NY state Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier in the week admitted that the administration had concealed the actual numbers of seniors who died of the coronavirus in state-run nursing homes, an intense backlash followed, with calls for Cuomo to be impeached.
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell accused the former president, Donald Trump, of the same charge he voted to acquit him of, namely inciting his supporters to violently attack the seat of Congress on January 6.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Thousands of people gathered on Saturday in the capital of the Central African Republic to thank Russia for helping troops repel militants from key cities, the Russian ambassador told Sputnik.
The proceedings to impeach ex-US President Donald Trump a second time are ongoing in the Senate after the US House of Representatives impeached 45 on 13 January. Congress members have been repeatedly alleging that Trump’s “charged” pre-riot speech about ‘mass election fraud’ encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol.
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