WITCH HUNT’: Trump’s message to supporters after impeachment acquittal
Yahoo News Staff
Yahoo News Staff
Sun, 14 February 2021, 6:15 am·4-min read
Former US president Donald Trump has welcomed his second impeachment acquittal and says his movement “has only just begun”.
Trump in a lengthy statement on Saturday (local time) thanked his lawyers and his defenders in the House and Senate, who he said “stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country”.
He slammed the trial as “yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country”.
Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on January 20, 2021.
Donald Trump has released a statement calling the impeachment a ‘witch hunt’ after he was acquitted. Source: Getty Images
The former president told his supporters “our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun”.
“In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people,” he said.
While Trump was acquitted by the Senate, seven Republicans voted to convict him, making it the most bipartisan vote in the history of presidential impeachments.
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The Senate vote of 57-43 fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection after a five-day trial in the same building ransacked by his followers on January 6 shortly after they heard him deliver an incendiary speech.
In the vote, seven of the 50 Senate Republicans joined the chamber’s unified Democrats in favouring conviction.
Demonstrators walk through the US Capitol after breaching barricades to the building during a protest outside.
Trump supporters storm through the US Capitol after getting through barricades outside. Source: Getty Images
Trump left office on January 20, so impeachment could not be used to remove him from power.
But Democrats had hoped to secure a conviction to hold him responsible for a siege that left five people including a police officer dead and to set the stage for a vote to bar him from ever serving in public office again.
Given the chance to hold office in the future, they argued, Trump would not hesitate to encourage political violence again.
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Me: Especially when he did not get charged by The FBI of put in prison to await his trial and prison for years and if I were Trump, why not, after all, he does not get punished, the idiots who do what he tells them to do, do
