U.S. Senate acquits Donald Trump of Impeachment charges

6 Feb 2020

U.S. Senate acquits Donald Trump of Impeachment charges

U.S. Senate acquits Donald Trump of Impeachment chargesThe US Congress (parliament) Upper House, the Senate voted to acquit (find not guilty) President Donald Trump on the 2 articles of impeachment with which he was charged.

The third impeachment trial of a sitting president in US history concluded on Wednesday afternoon.
 	The Senate's votes found the President not guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the 2 impeachment articles the House of Representatives charged Mr Trump with in December.
 	This verdict doesn't come as a surprise as the Republicans, Mr Trump's own party is in majority in the Senate.
 	However, Senator Mitt Romney, a Republican from the state of Utah, voted against the acquittal. He became the first senator in US history to vote to remove from office a president from the same party.

The Senate's verdict of acquitting the President was the final step in the four-month impeachment process.

The US House of Representatives had announced a formal impeachment inquiry into the President, in September 2019.
 	The House went on to impeach Donald Trump in December 2019.
 	The impeachment trial reached the Senate in January 2020.

While Wednesday's vote marks the end of the formal impeachment process, the acquittal will still be a major point of debate in the upcoming 2020 US Presidential elections and is likely to affect the election's outcome.

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