(Newswire.net — December 21, 2019) — Donald Trump has become the third American President to be impeached in history. At 8:30 EST, the house of representatives called for votes on two charges against Donald Trump.
The first charge is one of an abuse of powers. This charge is due to Mr Trump’s alleged attempt to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into his Democratic political rival, Joe Biden.
This charge passed 230 votes to 197, almost completely the same a the amount of democratic and republican party members in the house of representatives.
The second charge is one that states that Trump obstructed Congress by alledgedly refusing to co-operate with the impeachment inquiry by witholding documents and banning his key aides from giving evidence to the house of representatives.
Despite being impeached, Donald Trump has denied any evidence of wrongdoing, describing the impeachment as ‘AN ASSAULT ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!!’.
Republican Congressman Barry Loudermilk criticised the process of impeachment and drew a comparison between the current inquiry into President Donald Trump to the trial of Jesus.
What happens now?
In the new year, although it has not yet been stated when, there will be a trial at the senate to decide whether Donald Trumpshould be removed from office. However, with a republican majority, it will be almost impossible to remove the president from office, as it is very unlikely that many (if any) republicans go agaisnt their party.
The Republican party majority leader, Mitch Mconnell, has stated that the Republican Senators will act in ‘total co-ordination’ during the trial, which angered democratic members who have stated that the senators should act as an impartial jury.
Trump has now penned an angry 6-page letter to the house speaker, Nancy Pelosi, which featured such phrases as ‘You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!‘ and ‘I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record. One hundred years from now, when people look back at this affair, I want them to understand it, and learn from it, so that it can never happen to another president again.‘