WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump drew on staunch Republican support on Wednesday to defeat the gravest threat yet to his three-year-old presidency, winning acquittal in the Senate on impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
"Two-thirds of the senators present not having pronounced him guilty, the Senate adjudges that respondent Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is not guilty as charged," said Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who presided over the trial. Trump had repeatedly dismissed the probe as a"hoax" and a"witch hunt" but argued he had the right as president to pressure Ukraine, while refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas for testimony and documents.Democrats were dejected but not surprised, after an intense 78-day House investigation that faced public doubts and high-pressure stonewalling from the White House.
Though doubtful from the outset that they would win support from Senate Republicans, an investigation amassed with surprising speed strong evidence to support the allegations. "We must say enough - enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again," Schiff argued on the Senate floor this week.Trump's defenders were not seen as having undermined the facts compiled by Schiff's probe, and several Republican senators acknowledged he did wrong.
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