| Second impeachment of Donald Trump | |
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 The House of Representatives votes to adopt the article of impeachment. | |
| Accused | Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States |
| Proponents | |
| Date | January 13 – February 13, 2021 (1 month) |
| Outcome | Acquitted by the U.S. Senate |
| Charges | |
| Cause | |
| Congressional votes | |
| Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Accusation | Incitement of insurrection |
| Votes in favor | 232 |
| Votes against | 197 |
| Present | 0 |
| Not voting | 4 |
| Result | Approved |
| Voting in the U.S. Senate | |
| Accusation | Incitement of insurrection |
| Votes in favor | 57 "guilty" |
| Votes against | 43 "not guilty" |
| Result | Acquitted (67 "guilty" votes necessary for a conviction) |
| January 6 United States Capitol attack |
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| Timeline • Planning |
| Background |
| Participants |
| Aftermath |
Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired. It was the fourth impeachment of a U.S. president, and the second for Trump after his first impeachment in December 2019.[1][2]
The House of Representatives of the 117th U.S. Congress adopted one article of impeachment against Trump of "incitement of insurrection", stating that he had incited the January 6 attack of the U.S. Capitol. The House impeachment managers formally triggered the start of the impeachment trial on January 25 by delivering to the Senate the charge against Trump.[3] The trial in the Senate was scheduled to start on February 9.[4]
The trial was the first of its kind for a departed U.S. president, as all prior impeachment trials of presidents (those of Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Trump) having taken place during their presidencies. Many Republican senators challenged the validity of holding an impeachment trial for a president no longer in office while proponents cited the Senate's 1876 trial of William W. Belknap, the Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant, who was impeached but not convicted after resigning from office immediately prior to a House vote on his impeachment.[5] At the trial, 57 senators voted "guilty", which was less than the two-thirds majority needed (67) to convict Trump, and 43 senators voted "not guilty", resulting in Trump being acquitted of the charges on February 13, 2021.[6]
In August 2023, Trump was twice indicted for the conduct at issue in his impeachment, once in Georgia and once federally.
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- ^ Herb, Jeremy; Raju, Manu (January 25, 2021). "House delivers impeachment article to Senate". CNN. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ Knott, Matthew (January 23, 2021). "Trump's Senate impeachment trial to begin in two weeks". The Age. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
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