Donald Trump Is Officially Acquitted

On Wednesday (February 5), the United States Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on impeachment expenditures for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, with final votes set at 52 not guilty to 48 guilty, and 53 not guilty to 47 guilty, respectively. He is set to live in office for at least the remainder of his term.


The vote came down almost exactly along party lines. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) was the only Republican to vote in favor of Trump's conviction, on the count of abuse of power, the New York Times reported; he voted against the charge that Trump obstructed Congress while in their efforts to discover what happened while in and right following the President's July call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. This vote comes just days right after Senate Republicans voted against allowing any more witness testimony or documents to the record.


The vote makes Trump the third U.S. President to ever be formally impeached by the Home of Representatives and acquitted, or noticed not guilty, by the Senate right following the, joining Presidents Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson. President Richard Nixon also faced impeachment but resigned before the Residence voted.


This entire controversy began six months ago, when Trump asked Zelensky to investigate potential 2016 election interference based on a conspiracy theory and to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter. Trump also allegedly contained up $400 million in pre-approved military aid as a reward that dirty work. A whistleblower complaint about the call led to private and public Congressional hearings featuring each person from Ambassador Bill Taylor, the best diplomat in Ukraine, to Fiona Hill, Trump’s senior Russia advisor. The following weeks in Washington, D.C. Were filled with dogs, drag queens, Kim Kardashian and A$AP Rocky name-drops, weird turkey pardons, deadline promises made and not kept, and a House Judiciary Committee vote. In late December, the Residence of Representatives officially impeached Trump. Then, soon after weeks of Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi hold off on sending the articles of impeachment over to the Senate, the impeachment finally moved from the Residence to the Senate, and the trial worked by way of the Senate. And right now, the six-month saga has come to an end.