Former US President Donald Trump is speaking at the construction site of the US-Mexico border barrier in Alamo, Texas on the 12th of last month. Trump’s impeachment bill was rejected in the US Senate on the 13th. Alamo = AP Newsis
The impeachment bill for former US President Donald Trump was rejected in the Senate on the 13th (local time). However, the stigma of being the first president to have passed two impeachment bills in the US House of Representatives remains.
According to the U.S. CNN and the Associated Press, the Senate pleaded not guilty to former President Trump with 57 votes guilty and 43 not guilty in a vote for impeachment of former President Trump’s incitement to civil war that afternoon. In order to pass the impeachment bill, more than 67 votes were required, over two-thirds of the 100 senators, but 10 votes were short. In the Senate, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party were divided into 50 seats each. Seven of the Republican senators were in favor of the conviction.
Prior to this, hundreds of protesters supporting President Trump broke into the Washington Capitol on the 6th of last month, stopping the joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives to certify the electoral vote of President-elect Joe Biden. In the process, five people, including one parliamentary policeman, were killed. It was the first time since the founding of the United States in 1776 that protesters invaded the Capitol and caused violence.
The Democratic Party pushed for impeachment, saying that former President Trump promoted violence immediately after the Capitol riots. In particular, charges were applied that former President Trump encouraged protesters to invade the Capitol through a speech in front of the White House on the day of the Capitol Crisis.
In the House of Representatives, where the Democratic Party is the majority, an impeachment bill was passed on the 13th of last month. The impeachment bill was passed to the Senate on the 9th, and the ballot was held after hearing and defense by that day.
Former President Trump passed an impeachment bill in the House of Representatives in December 2019 due to the “Ukraine Scandal”, but the impeachment bill was rejected in the Senate in February last year.
Washington= Jeong Won Correspondent [email protected]
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