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The House impeachment managers formally triggered the start of the impeachment trial on January 25 by walking across the Capitol and delivered to the Senate the charge against Trump. The nine managers were led into the Senate chamber by the lead impeachment manager, who read the article of impeachment. [ 1 ]
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States (in office from 2017 to 2021), began on February 9, 2021, and concluded with his acquittal on February 13. Donald Trump had been impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives on January 13, 2021.
In previous impeachment proceedings, only one senator had ever voted to convict a president of their own party. This time, seven Republican senators found Trump guilty, making it the most bipartisan impeachment trial. As Trump was no longer president, the president pro tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy presided over Trump's second trial. As ...
Everything you wanted to know about the president’s historic impeachment and Senate trial.
The U.S. Senate acquitted Donald Trump for a second time on Saturday, concluding a five-day impeachment trial. The former president, who has been impeached twice by the House of Representatives ...
The articles of impeachment against President Trump. Under the U.S. Constitution, the House has the sole power of impeachment (Article I, Section 2, Clause 5), and after that action has been taken, the Senate has the sole power to hold the trial for all impeachments (Article I, Section 3, Clause 6).
Shortly thereafter, former long-serving Republican congressman Tom Coleman (R-MO) also called for Trump's impeachment. [132] In addition, conservative attorney George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway, called for Trump's impeachment. [133] The Mueller Report was released on April 18, 2019, and Robert Mueller himself made follow-up comments on ...
Echoes of the 2020 impeachment trial against Donald Trump sparked a bitter exchange between California Senate candidates Rep. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey at the U.S. Senate Candidate Forum on ...