*(Via HuffPost) – For the third time in history, the House of Representatives has impeached a president, in this case, it places a permanent asterisk next to the name of Donald J. Trump and setting the stage for a Senate trial on removal.
Enough House lawmakers have voted Wednesday evening in favor of impeaching Trump, and the vote on the first article of impeachment — for abuse of power — is set to close shortly. The House is also voting on a second article — obstruction of Congress — and is expected to impeach the president on that charge as well.
Democrats accuse the president of corruptly soliciting a foreign government to investigate one of his chief political rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, and conditioning $391 million of security aid on the launch of that investigation. They also charge Trump with “unprecedented, categorical and indiscriminate defiance” as the House sought to investigate his behavior. The White House refused to turn over any documents related to the impeachment inquiry, and a number of Trump administration officials ignored subpoenas to testify.
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