Today, Wednesday, during a US Senate vote, President Donald Trump was acquitted of two charges he is pursuing in the case to remove him from office.
By dropping the House, in which Republicans have a majority, accusations of obstructing Congressional action and misuse of power by President Trump drop the curtain on this trial that enshrined the great political rift between Democrats and Republicans in a crucial election year.
The US constitution requires a two-thirds majority, or 67 out of a hundred members of the Senate, to be able to condemn President Trump, the quorum that Democrats failed to reach in light of the strong alignment of Republicans alongside the White House resident.
The Senate had paved the decision for innocence by refusing, a few days ago, to call witnesses or presenting new documents at the trial, frustrating the efforts of Democrats who sought to summon former White House national security adviser John Bolton and other advisers and weighers to the president in order to testify.
At the end of their arguments, the day before yesterday, Monday, in the Senate, President Donald Trump's lawyers had demanded that he be acquitted of the two charges against him, while the Democrats demanded that he be convicted.
It is worth noting that, on December 18th, the US House of Representatives decided to indict Trump two charges: obstructing the work of the Congress in the investigation aimed to isolate him, and using the authority to exert pressure on Kiev to open an investigation against Joe Biden, the most likely Democratic candidate to face him in the presidential elections. Next.
The trial of President Trump was a prominent station in the United States of America, as it is only the third time in the history of this country that Congress has tried the President under an isolation mechanism, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999.
By dropping the House, in which Republicans have a majority, accusations of obstructing Congressional action and misuse of power by President Trump drop the curtain on this trial that enshrined the great political rift between Democrats and Republicans in a crucial election year.
The US constitution requires a two-thirds majority, or 67 out of a hundred members of the Senate, to be able to condemn President Trump, the quorum that Democrats failed to reach in light of the strong alignment of Republicans alongside the White House resident.
The Senate had paved the decision for innocence by refusing, a few days ago, to call witnesses or presenting new documents at the trial, frustrating the efforts of Democrats who sought to summon former White House national security adviser John Bolton and other advisers and weighers to the president in order to testify.
At the end of their arguments, the day before yesterday, Monday, in the Senate, President Donald Trump's lawyers had demanded that he be acquitted of the two charges against him, while the Democrats demanded that he be convicted.
It is worth noting that, on December 18th, the US House of Representatives decided to indict Trump two charges: obstructing the work of the Congress in the investigation aimed to isolate him, and using the authority to exert pressure on Kiev to open an investigation against Joe Biden, the most likely Democratic candidate to face him in the presidential elections. Next.
The trial of President Trump was a prominent station in the United States of America, as it is only the third time in the history of this country that Congress has tried the President under an isolation mechanism, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999.