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Trump Acquitted From Democrats’ Partisan Articles Of Impeachment
President Donald Trump was acquitted from both of House Democrats’ partisan articles of impeachment on Tuesday when Senators cast their votes in the impeachment trial.
Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney was the only Republican to defect from the party and to vote for conviction, the first time in US history that a member of the president’s own party has voted to remove the president.
On the second article of impeachment, for obstruction of Congress, Trump was exonerated in a 53-47 vote.
“The Senate, having tried Donald John Trump, President of the United States, upon two articles of impeachment exhibited against him by the House of Representatives and two thirds of the Senators present not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein,” Chief Justice John Roberts said. “It is therefore ordered and adjudged the said Donald John Trump be, and he is hereby, acquitted of the charges in said articles”.
