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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For posterity, as the vote became official, Mr Trump was talking about the Space Force he is launching.
Mr Trump claims he "can't have stock" as president because they would "consider that a conflict of interest". None of that is true, and Mr Trump has broken from norms as president by not divesting from his international business (which, yes, does raise concerns of conflict of interest).
Mr Trump hasn't mentioned the impeachment vote again. He may not even know it has officially happened (or may not care).
This rally is striking. Mr Trump just became the third president in American history to be impeached, and the president is bragging about his record in front of thousands of adoring supporters.
He's also trashing Hillary Clinton, and claiming she would have led to a drop in the stock market and economy.
Mr Trump is now bragging about polls, and trashing Joe Biden.
He is mocking him for holding a round table with Mr Biden — which he has implied is quite small.
Moments after an impeachment vote in Washington, a crowd in Michigan is now cheering "Four more years! Four more years!"
Mr Trump now attacking Elizabeth Warren as "Crazy Pocahontas", claiming that her crowd sizes aren't impressive.
"I could have Barron go into Central Park and get the same kind of crowd. He's 13. He'd have a bigger crowd!"
"From the time I came down on that elevator, I don't think we've had an empty seat," Mr Trump says, bragging about crowd sizes at his rallies (for the record, this reporter has been to a Trump rally in his day, and has seen empty seats).
Meanwhile, Democrats just made the impeachment vote impeachment: "Article one is adopted."
Here’s the moment when Donald Trump became the third impeached American president.
the House is now voting on the second article Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy and the GOP leadership have canceled their post-vote press conference.
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