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  • Senate acquits Trump

    Todd J. Gillman - Dallas Morning News, Syndicated content|Updated Feb 13, 2021

    WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial ended Saturday with acquittal on a 57-43 vote, short of the two-thirds needed for conviction. Seven Republicans joined all Democrats in voting that the former president incited insurrection. “None of this would have happened without the president,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the lead House manager, told senators sitting in judgment in a chamber that was overrun by pro-Trump militants on Jan. 6. But he said, entreating them to bar the ex-president from holding...