President Donald Trump is now the first President to be impeached twice. The charge: Incitement of insurrection. The vote: bipartisan. Ten Republicansvoted along with the Democrats. The totals: 232 for 197 opposed.
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IMPEACHED AGAIN! Final vote is 232 YEA-197 NO. A mere 10 Republicans voted yea. Bipartisan but not impressively so. Blows one's mind: President Trump incites a mob to invade Congress, to kill and destroy, and 197 Republicans make excuses for him. #ImpeachmentDay
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) January 13, 2021
Hey @SenatorCollins, think the second impeachment will teach him his lesson?
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) January 13, 2021
Even Andrew Johnson wasn't able to pull this off this much winning.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) January 13, 2021
Breaking: Trump is now the first president to be impeached twice and lose popular vote twice
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) January 13, 2021
Half the Presidential impeachments in American history will now belong to Donald Trump.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 13, 2021
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.