House Votes To Impeach Donald Trump A Second Time, A First For U.S. Presidents
A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a single charge of incitement of insurrection stemming from the deadly violence by a mob of his supporters at the U.S. Capitol last week.
It’s official:
President Trump just became the only President to be impeached twice, this time on one article of incitement of insurrection.#ImpeachmentDay pic.twitter.com/YmIcmaVpWr
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) January 13, 2021
The historic vote meant that it was the second time in as many years that Trump has been impeached by the House. It was also the first time in U.S. history that a sitting president has ever been impeached twice. It was also the first time a president has been impeached through a bipartisan effort, as 10 Republicans voted against the leader of their own party.
The vote passed with 231 Representatives voting in favor of the impeachment and 197 voting against it, with five people not registering a vote at all.
While the House managed to bring the impeachment vote in seemingly record time, don’t expect the Senate to move as swiftly for Trump’s impeachment trial. While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump should be impeached, he never said he would vote to convict him and announced Wednesday that the Senate would take up the impeachment trial after Joe Biden is inaugurated on Tuesday.
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