Senate votes to acquit Donald Trump in split vote with Republican Mitt Romney as sole defector

  • 📰 Newsweek
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 48 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 23%
  • Publisher: 52%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

The GOP senator is the first senator in the history of the United States to vote for the impeachment of a president from the lawmaker's own party.

A lone senator broke from party ranks Wednesday to vote for President Donald Trump's removal from office on one impeachment charge of abuse of power.

"The president's purpose was personal and political. Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust," Romney, who voted to acquit for the second article on obstruction of Congress, said in a floor speech."What he did was not perfect, no. It was a flagrant assault under electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values.

Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters upon arrival to the U.S. Capitol for the Senate impeachment trial on January 29 in Washington, D.C.Still, the final tallies for the abuse of power and obstruction of Congress articles, 48-52 and 47-53, respectively, made Trump the third president in American history to be acquitted of articles of impeachment.

In the hours leading up to the vote, questions lingered over who—if any—senators would break from their party. A, though they were unsuccessful in preventing the articles from advancing to the Senate.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

pierredefector 👎🏻👎🏻

“defector”? At least he has a shred of integrity and half a soul. LOL.

Mitt Romeu, the only republican in Congress with a sense of honor and shame! You can either agree with his politics but the nan has a sense of integrity moving away from the Trump’s covering up mafia and gang of GOPs who are all bought by money ,money,money! Wake up USA voters!

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 468. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Ex-Republican strategist says that Trump will become like a 'king' or 'emperor' after Senate acquittal'There will never, ever have been an American president with the power that Donald Trump possesses right now in this moment,' Steve Schmidt argued. Save nics and remind trumpsters of this when there is a Democrat president! Trump is only to get worse... if that's even possible. I'm cool with that
Source: Newsweek - 🏆 468. / 52 Read more »

Senate Acquits President Donald Trump In Finale To Impeachment ProcessPresident Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate today after a five-month impeachment process. The acquittal on both articles of impeachment was not a surprise, as few expected enough Republicans…
Source: DEADLINE - 🏆 109. / 63 Read more »

Trump impeachment vote live updates: Sharply divided Senate acquits Trump on both articlesThe months-long impeachment and Senate trial of President Donald Trump has come to an anticlimactic end with voted to acquit on both articles. Sorry losers SenateGOP are beyond contempt. 👏🏼👏🏼
Source: ABC - 🏆 471. / 51 Read more »

Republican Rand Paul names purported 'whistleblower' in the SenateRepublican Senator Rand Paul gave the purported name of the anonymous whistleblo... I can only hope that Paul gets fucked in half by lawsuits when this is all said and done. May Paul suffer whatever fate he intends for the whistleblower. There's never a Rand Paul neighbor around want you need one.
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »

Donald Trump's job approval hits all-time high on eve of Senate impeachment voteThe poll results from Gallup also show the president's approval rating broke records in terms of polarization. Trump’s job approval yet hit 50% Could be another way to look at it... Latest poll of polls. Approve 43.5%, Disapprove 52.1% Majority Americans Disapprove.
Source: Newsweek - 🏆 468. / 52 Read more »

Watch: Senate votes on whether to acquit Trump in impeachment trialThe GOP-dominated Senate is expected on Wednesday to end President Donald Trump's impeachment trial with acquittals on both charges. It is time to acquit and hopefully the two sides can work together and move past this. Lolz 😂😂😂😂
Source: CNBC - 🏆 12. / 72 Read more »