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In June 2023, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post wrote that the effort to expunge Trump's impeachments, "would be laughable if not so dangerous": The aim appears to be to allow Trump, the likely GOP presidential nominee in next year’s election, to claim that despite the events we all witnessed, he was never impeached at all.
The permissibility of trying a former official was a major issue in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, which commenced 20 days after Trump's term in office expired, although Trump's impeachment itself occurred while he was president. By a 55–45 vote, the Senate rejected a motion asserting that the trial was unconstitutional.
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.
The Clinton–Lewinsky scandal was a sex scandal involving Bill Clinton, the president of the United States, and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.Their sexual relationship began in 1995—when Clinton was 49 years old and Lewinsky was 22 years old—and lasted 18 months, ending in 1997. [1]
Mills compared Biden's action with Trump's when Trump in 2019 unsuccessfully tried to pressure Volodymyr Zelenskyy into investigating Biden and his family [65] and to promote a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine–not Russia–was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election. [66] This resulted in Trump's first ...
The Senate hears Congressmen John Bingham and Thaddeus Stevens inform them of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson Secretary of the Senate Julie E. Adams (left) and Senator Patrick Leahy signing the summons for the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. After an impeachment is adopted in the House, the House appoints the impeachment managers.
Nick Fuentes, white nationalist political commentator and streamer (originally endorsed Donald Trump before withdrawing endorsement) [157] Robert Kagan, former Republican, [158] former U.S. State Department official, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, contributor to The Washington Post [159] Sarah Longwell, political strategist [160]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announcing the launch of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump in September 2019. In modern practice, impeachment inquiries often are spurred by referrals by external investigative bodies, such as the Judicial Conference of the United States, an independent counsel, a grand jury or a state legislature.