The Democrat-led House of Representatives passed the abuse of power article of impeachment on a largely party-line 230-197 vote, making Donald Trump the third President of the United States to be impeached by the lower house of the US Congress.
After being impeached by the United States House of Representatives, US President Donald Trump wanted an immediate trial in the Senate, adding that the Democrats did not give him a "due process." in the lower house.
Donald Trump tweeted, "So after the Democrats gave me no Due Process in the House, no lawyers, no witnesses, no nothing, they now want to tell the Senate how to run their trial. Actually, they have zero proof of anything, they will never even show up. They want out. I want an immediate trial!"
"The House Democrats were unable to get even a single vote from the Republicans on their Impeachment Hoax. The Republicans have never been so united! The Dem’s case is so bad that they don’t even want to go to trial!" He further added.
The Democrat-led House of Representatives passed the abuse of power article of impeachment on a largely party-line 230-197 vote, making Donald Trump the third President of the United States to be impeached by the lower house of the US Congress. The lower House then proceeded with a vote on the second article of impeachment charging him with obstruction of Congress. Following this, a trial will be held in the Republican-led Senate - a friendlier House for Trump - on whether to convict him and remove him from office. That would require a two-thirds majority in the 100-member Senate, meaning at least 20 Republicans would have to join Democrats in voting against Trump - and none have indicated they will. However, if the upper house, too, convicts him on the charges leveled against him, Donald Trump will be the first President of the United States of America to be removed from office by impeachment.
A day earlier, ahead of the impeachment vote, Trump had also sent a six-page letter to US House of Representatives Speaker Pelosi, angrily lashing out for what Trump saw as a Democrat-led "illegal, partisan-attempted coup" against him. Trump's rambling, grievance-laden letter to Pelosi alleged the Democrats of declaring an "open war" on American democracy and contained his litany of complaints against their efforts to remove him from office for pressing Ukraine to investigate political rival, Joe Biden.
Trump accused Pelosi of "turning the House of Representatives from a revered legislative body into a Star Chamber of partisan persecution while scarcely concealing your (Pelosi's) hatred of me (Trump)." He also said that Pelosi was leading "libellous and vicious crusade" against Trump, "motivated by personal political calculation."
Nancy Pelosi had initiated the process of impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump after a whistleblower alleged that the US President may have withheld military aid to Ukraine as a means of pressurizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on two counts - firstly, to pursue investigations on Trump's political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and secondly, to float the conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind his 2016 Presidential campaign.
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