Trump’s Second Acquittal: A Day That Should Live in Infamy – The Dispatch
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Five years ago today, 43 Senate Republicans voted to acquit Donald Trump of inciting the January 6 riot in his second impeachment trial, leaving the Senate short of the two-thirds required to convict. In doing so, they foreclosed the constitutional penalty that potentially follows conviction: “disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States.”
Gary Schmitt is a resident scholar in strategic studies and American institutions at the American Enterprise Institute.
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