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Donald Trump acquitted by Senate in second impeachment trial:
The Senate has voted to acquit the former president of the United States after the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump concluded Saturday. The vote came after a five-day trial where arguments centered around whether Trump incited the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, and whether it is constitutional to hear the impeachment trial of a former president who is now a private citizen.
Despite a compelling prosecution, an acquittal isn't unexpected. While the Senate is split 50/50, with Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-break vote as president of the Senate when necessary, the impeachment trial required a two-thirds supermajority for conviction.
This meant 17 Republican senators would have had to vote to convict Trump, an unlikely ask from the beginning. This was indicated in a Jan. 25 vote led by Sen. Rand Paul on whether the impeachment trial of a former president was "unconstitutional," during which just five Republicans voted against the motion. The first day of the impeachment trial this week then saw a similar vote, during which six Republicans voted with Democrats to continue the trial.
In the end, the vote was 57-43 to convict Trump, with all 48 Democrats, two independents and seven Republicans finding Trump guilty. The only members of the GOP who voted alongside the Democrat senators were Sens. Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey, Bill Cassidy and Richard Burr.
Also at: CNN, Al Jazera, Time, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @12:40AM (3 children)
> Sorry man, that "half hour away" bit doesn't cut it.
The capitol had already been breached before Trump's comments which dems presented out of context as "evidence" were even made. tbf Democrats have been the source of so much negative energy over the past 5 years that time travel could be a possibility.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @12:50AM (1 child)
Lie? Not a big lie, like Trump's "Stop the Steel", but a lie nonetheless. Does it become easier after a long time, to just lie off the top of your head? Or is it just standard Republican operating procedure, now that Trump has thoroughly corrupted them?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @03:48AM
I wouldn't know. [pjmedia.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 14 2021, @03:37AM
At least two requests had been made by 2 pm for National Guard assistance. The Action Secretary of Defense, Christopher C. Miller had two days earlier made it so that only he personally could authorize deployment of the local National Guard forces. That authorization came somewhere around 4 pm - the timeline didn't give an accurate time for that. Trump doesn't actually say anything to repudiate the violence and such till over a day later.
Sure looks to me like Trump and Giuliani riled up the protesters, both before and during the protest, and then Miller deliberately delayed the official response to the protest. That's a pretty dick move.