WASHINGTON – Donald Trump yesterday became the first United States president to be impeached for a second time, when a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives voted to charge him with inciting last week’s attack on the US Capitol.
One week before Trump is to leave office, a total of 232 lawmakers – including 10 Republicans, who broke with the president – voted to impeach the defiant Republican leader for high crimes and misdemeanours on a single charge of “incitement of insurrection”.
Impeachment triggers a trial in the US Senate, but the chamber is not expected to take up the matter until after Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th president on January 20. – AFP, January 14, 2021
