The former president of the United States (USA), Donald Trump, was acquitted for the second time in a political trial after the Senate will dismiss his responsibility in the disturbances of the taking of the Capitol on January 6.
The historic process before the upper house showed that Trump continues to control the Republican Party and senators they voted 57 to 43 in favor of convicting him, without achieving the required two-thirds majority. Only seven Republicans voted in favor.
In its first impeachment, In 2020, the ex-president was acquitted of the accusations of alleged abuse of power and “obstruction of Congress” in the framework of pressure on Ukraine to investigate the now president, Joe Biden.
After a second trial, Trump threatens to return to politics
The former president of the United States (USA), Donald Trump, celebrated his acquittal in the impeachment against him, for the assault of his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, and he warned that his movement to make that country “great again, has just begun.”
“I have much to share with you in the months to come and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it! “, Said the ex-president, but this time he did not do it through Twitter, but through a statement, after that social network, which was his favorite for making such announcements, revoked his counts permanently, after the violence that occurred last month.
With those words, Trump thus threatened with the possibility of returning to politics without offering specific details, although he had previously opened the door to stand in the 2024 presidential elections.
The former president, who ruled between January 2017 and January this year, considered that the impeachment or impeachment in the Senate it was part of “the greatest witch hunt” in the history of the American Union.
True to his style, his statement did not include, however, any type of condemnation of what happened during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, one of the most convulsive days in that nation and in which five people died, including a police.
This process will go down in history because turned to Trump the first American president to face and be acquitted in two political trials —After the one held a year ago for its pressure on Ukraine— and because it had never before undergone a impeachment to an agent when he is no longer in power.
The leader of the Democratic legislators, Nancy Pelosi, after the acquittal of Donald Trump. AP / M. Balce
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It’s responsible”
The leader of the Republican senators, Mitch McConnell, accused Donald Trump of being “responsible” for the deadly assault on the Capitol, just after having voted for the acquittal of the former president during a historic process in the Senate.
“There is no doubt that President Trump is, in fact and morally, responsible for causing the events of the day” of January 6, declared the influential senator.
In the same speech, McConnell justified his vote in favor of the acquittal of Trump, holding that the Senate has no jurisdiction to judge a former president.
The assailants acted “because the most powerful man on the planet fed them lies” by denying their defeat in the November 3 presidential elections, he said. “Because he had anger. He had lost an election ”.
A “difficult decision,” said Mitch McConnell, who certainly weighed heavily in the final vote, given his considerable influence in his parliamentary group.
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