Trump impeachment: House impeaches president in historic vote along party lines
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The House has voted to impeach Donald Trump, making him the third president in American history to receive such a censure.
After roughly eight hours of debate, the House of Representatives gathered to vote and ultimately charged him with abusing the power of his office by attempting to extort a political favour from Ukraine. The House then voted on a second article of impeachment, approving formal charges that Mr Trump had obstructed Congress during the subsequent congressional investigation into his conduct.
The Senate will now take up the approved impeachment articles in the new year.
Defiant as ever, Mr Trump walked onstage at a rally in Michigan just as the House began voting — and was bragging about his Space Force and mocking stock market jitters as the first article of impeachement was approved. Before it became official, as the vote crept towards approving the first article of impeachment, Mr Trump was interrupted by a protester, who he suggested was treated too well by security forces — and that they should have been tougher on her.
Before the vote and rally, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius described a letter sent by Mr Trump to House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday as “the most unpresidential presidential document ever written” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe after rallies backing the impeachment process were held in cities across the country on Tuesday evening.
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Just as the House is set to begin voting in impeachment, Donald Trump has taken the stage in Michigan.
Mr Trump is bragging about his electoral victory in Michigan in 2016, as Mr Schiff continues his final remarks.
The crowd boos when he mentions. "By the way, by the way, it doesn't really feel like we're being impeached. The country is doing better than it was before. We've done nothing wrong."
"Nobody has ever had this kind of support."
The House is now voting on the first article of impeachment
Mr Trump praises his work on the USMCA, calling Nafta the "worst trade deal ever". He says the USMCA is a great deal.
Mr Trump claims that Democrats are trying to take credit for the USMCA "but that's OK". The crowd in Michigan boos.
Mr Trump now yelling at a man that he loves him.
The rally in Michigan has been interrupted by a protester, and his supporters are chanting "USA".
"Get her out of here," Mr Trump says, pausing and looking to his left where the protester apparently is.
"You're about the hear the greatest speech," Mr Trump said before complaining that the media will only report on the protest.
"There's a slob. There's a real slob," Mr Trump says of the protester. "She'll get hell when she's back home with mom."
"There's one disgusting person who made, wait - now I would never say this, but who made a horrible gesture with her middle finger," Mr Trump says of the protester.
Mr Trump urges his crowd and security to be tougher with protesters.
The House has now voted to approve the first article of impeachment, along party lines. Mr Trump has officially become the third president in US history to be impeached.
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