President Donald Trump Has Been Impeached

December 18, 2019 3:33 am

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. House voted to impeach President Donald Trump in a historic nighttime vote that split lawmakers along party lines. In a long day of debate, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that lawmakers were rising to “defend democracy.” But Trump insisted they were actually perpetrating “an assault on America.” Trump would be just the third American president to be impeached, a lasting dark mark on his tenure. Now that they have been approved, the two charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress will be sent to the Senate for a trial in January. Republican supporters say the Democrats are just trying to remove a president they couldn’t defeat.