President Trump has been acquitted of all impeachment articles accusing the president of abusing his power by withholding aid to the Ukraine and using it as a tool to help with his 2020 election campaign.
Starting back in October, this is the third impeachment trial in history finally came to a close on February fifth, a day after President Trump gave his State Of The Union Address at the House of Representatives.
The final decision was made after Republican senators came to a majority vote for President Trump’s innocence in both articles of impeachment.The first article addressing the abuse of power while in office, and the second addressing the obstruction of Congress. All Republican Senators voted against a guilty verdict, with the exception of Utah Senator, Mitt Romney along with all the democrat senators who wanted to convict President Trump.
As all the senators on from each party stood up and declared whether the president is guilty or not, Chief Justice John Roberts announced the final vote for the impeachment trial: “In this article of impeachment 48 senators have pronounced Donald John Trump, President of the United States guilty as charged, 52 senators have pronounced him not guilty as charged. Two-thirds of the senators present have not pronounced him guilty.”
Throughout the months of his impeachment trial, the President has repeatedly called this a ‘witch hunt,’ as he believed all of the democrats were trying to throw him out of office because they disapprove of his leadership. Some students such as, senior Sonja Krzesinski, have their own thoughts. “It would be nice if they did agree to witnesses and see how that would have gone, but the vote overturned it, so he [President Trump] is still our president.”
The fight is over. Now the nation will set their full focus on the 2020 election to see if President Trump will really stay in office.
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