The former president isn’t in the clear yet though, as he’s still facing multiple, ongoing criminal investigations.
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Analysis: Four final takeaways from Trump’s impeachment trial
He suffered the most bipartisan vote ever in favor of convicting a president.
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Democrats abandon plan to call witnesses in Trump trial
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will vote to acquit the former president.
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Analysis: 9/11 probe leaders lend weight to calls for independent commission to investigate Capitol attack
But is there the will in Congress to go ahead with such an investigation after the Senate trial?
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GOP’s Mitch McConnell: Trump morally responsible for Jan. 6 attack
Washington’s most powerful Republican used his strongest language to date to denounce Trump minutes after he voted to acquit him.
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7 Republicans vote to convict Trump in impeachment trial
Maine Sen. Susan Collins was one of seven Republicans to defect from the party in finding the former president ‘guilty’ of inciting an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
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Collins, King vote to convict Trump in second impeachment trial
The former president was acquitted because the Senate did not reach a two-thirds majority.
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A fight or a ‘fight’? In impeachment trial, a clash about context
In American political speech, words matter, but context is often everything.
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Three takeaways from Day Four of Trump’s impeachment trial
The defense was heavy on whataboutism, the First Amendment and misstating facts.
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Trump lawyers argue impeachment is based on ‘hatred,’ not facts
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine asked Trump’s lawyers to detail what the president did to stop the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and when Trump first learned the building had been breached.