The yeas were 57, ten votes short of the 67 required in the Senate to convict the former president of inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol in which five people died.
The yeas were 57, the nays were 43. The final vote on acquittal in the U.S. Senate came ten votes short of the 67 required to convict former President Trump of inciting the, reports CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett. That assault, by flag-waving, armed Trump supporters, came shortly after Mr. Trump spoke, and followed months of him spewing the so-called: that he had been fraudulently denied re-election. « We fight like hell, » he told a crowd of supporters at the Ellipse, as Congress was certifying the Electoral College votes. « And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore. » Democratic impeachment manager Joe Neguse, of Colorado: « He assembled the mob, he summoned the mob, and he incited the mob. » Seven Republicans voted to convict. Not among them: Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. Yet, the Senate Minority Leader later excoriated Mr. Trump’s election fraud lies and the violence he said flowed from them. « There is no question, none, that President Trump is — practically and morally — responsible for provoking the events of the day, » McConnell said. History will record this impeachment process, both in the House and Senate, as the most bipartisan exercise of its kind. Acquittal as we know was almost always certain, but the trial was about much more than the verdict. It established a historical record about what happened that horrible day, when the U.S. Capitol was sacked by enraged Americans.
