But it takes two-thirds of the house, or 67 senators, to convict, and the Senate didn’t need to punish the former president in the end.
Many senators held their votes adjusted until the last moment of Saturday, especially Republicans representing states where the former president remains popular, and most of them eventually voted in favor of acquittal, doubting that Trump was completely guilty or that the political trial was the right answer.
“Just take a look at what Republicans have been forced to stand for,” Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said, “look what Republicans have chosen to forgive. “
Democrats argued that Trump’s habit is an “open and closed” example of a responsible crime, saying that as president, he repeated the lie that the election had been stolen and then prompted his supporters to attack Congress and prevent the vote from being certified.
The defense team brazened this evidence, insisting that the Senate had no constitutional jurisdiction to verify a former president. Most Republican senators agreed.
Trump, who has been away at his Florida club since his departure on January 20, issued an order to the verdict and called the process “yet another phase of the biggest witch hunt in our country’s history. “
The 74-year-old Republican also alluded to a long-term political imaginable and “continue our incredible adventure in combination to achieve American greatness for all our people. “
“We have so many paintings ahead of us, and soon we will come out in the hope of a bright, bright and endless American future,” Trump said.
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