Source: (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)
President Donald J. Trump has been acquitted by the
Senate on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Republicans, with the exception of Utah Senator Mitt Romney, voted
to acquit President Trump on both charges.
Romney voted only to acquit on
obstruction of Congress. Democrats voted to convict on all charges.
Article I: 48-52 (not guilty)
Article II: 47-53 (not guilty)
"Two-thirds of the senators present not having
pronounced him guilty, the Senate adjudges that the respondent Donald John
Trump, President of the United States, is not guilty as charged in the first
article of impeachment," Chief Justice John Roberts.
"Two-thirds of
the senators present not having pronounced him guilty, the Senate adjudges that
the respondent Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is not guilty
as charged in the second article of impeachment."
"It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the said
Donald John Trump be, and he is hereby, acquitted of the charges in said
articles," Roberts continued, end the trial.
In the end so-called "moderate" Democrats,
including Senators Joe Manchin (WV), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and Doug Jones (AL),
voted to convict President Trump on both articles.
Leading Republican Senators
like Lindsey Graham had predicted President Trump would be acquitted in a
bipartisan fashion.
The White House has released a response:
“Today,
the sham impeachment attempt concocted by Democrats ended in the full
vindication and exoneration of President Donald J. Trump. As we have said all
along, he is not guilty. The Senate voted to reject the baseless articles of
impeachment, and only the President’s political opponents – all Democrats, and
one failed Republican presidential candidate – voted for the manufactured
impeachment articles.
“In
what has now become a consistent tradition for Democrats, this was yet another
witch-hunt that deprived the President of his due process rights and was based
on a series of lies. Rep. Adam Schiff lied to Congress and the American
people with a totally made up statement about the President’s phone call.
Will there be no retribution?
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi also lied to the
American people about the need to swiftly pass impeachment articles they dreamt
up, only to sit on them for a month before sending over to the Senate. In
the Senate, the Democrats continued to make their political motivations clear –
Rep. Schiff proclaimed the issues “cannot be decided at the ballot box” –
proving once again they think they know better than the voters of this country.
"This entire effort by the Democrats was aimed at overturning the results
of the 2016 election and interfering with the 2020 election.
"Throughout
this wholly corrupt process, President Trump successfully advanced the
interests of the United States and remained focused on the issues that matter
to Americans. He spent his time achieving real victories for the people
of this country, and the Democrats – once again – have nothing to show for
their fraudulent schemes.
"The President is pleased to put this latest chapter
of shameful behavior by the Democrats in the past, and looks forward to
continuing his work on behalf of the American people in 2020 and beyond."
The Republican National Committee has also released a
statement.
"Today’s vote to acquit President Trump ends the
latest political witch hunt, a dark moment in our nation’s history, that wasted
millions of taxpayer dollars," RNC Chairwoman McDaniel released in a
statement.
"Once again, Democrats have failed in their quest to erase the
votes of 63 million Americans and destroy a duly-elected President. The
American people won today, but they will not forget the division that Democrats
brought upon our country for three years.
"This November, voters will hold
Democrats accountable at the ballot box and vote to re-elect President Trump
and Republicans across the board."
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Nice Work, Traitor: Mitt Romney's Vote to
Impeach Trump Will Only Hurt Senate Republicans and Help Schumer
By Matt
Vespa | Townhall.Com
Source: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is a traitor. He’s voting to
convict Trump on one of the articles of impeachment. He’s siding with Democrats
and exposing himself as someone who is against the Great American Comeback.
To
all those blue-collar workers who stayed home in 2012 because Obama was too
liberal and Romney looked like the guy who fired them, he didn’t disappoint. He
just spits in your face with this vote which is a direct missile fired at the
blue-collar comeback that’s been engineered by this White House.
Romney is
doing this because of his conscience. Well, good for him. He’s principled, right?
Except that he’s not. Donald Trump Jr. cited a damning Twitter thread by
Gregory T. Angelo who noted the years of flip-flopping by Romney, exposing him
as the guy who just wants to be invited to the cocktail parties.
He called Trump a conman and then vied to become his
secretary of state. He said he didn’t want to return to the days of Ronald
Reagan in 1994, and then said he would very much like to see a Reagan
Republican be the 2008 nominee.
In 2012, he accepted Trump’s endorsement in his
presidential bid. And he accepted Trump’s endorsement during his 2018 Senate
run.
The man is doing this because he thinks he can run for president again.
Maybe.
Why would he do this? It seems Mitt has become infected with John McCain
syndrome of just being angry.
As Steve Guest noted, Trump is more popular than
him in Utah and with this move, made the impeachment all about him—as he’s done
without fail in years past.
Mitt isn’t principled. He’s a spineless politician
who just wants to be liked—and this is the perfect way to remain hated. He’s a
man without a country now and the Republican Party should move to expel him.
He’s a loser. He’s a traitor. And he will not be missed.
“Mitt cares so much about conservatism, the Constitution,
American prosperity, protecting the unborn and securing our borders that when
it really counts he is willing to backstab the most effective defender of all
those things and hand the lunatic democrat-socialists a win.”
Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel added that
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer should send Mitt a “thank you card”
because this vote only screws over Senate Republicans and helps Democrats in
their build to retake the upper chamber.
