December 18, 2019

The House voted to impeach President Donald Trump Wednesday on charges of abusing his power and obstructing congressional investigations, a historic rebuke in a political era that has threatened to upend the nation’s constitutional order.

The nearly party-line vote to recommend Trump’s removal from office and label him a national security threat was met by a defiant president who vowed to prevail in a Senate trial overseen by his Republican allies — but whose presidency will be forever blemished by an impeachment.

Trump became just the third president to be impeached — after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998 — and he is the first who will campaign for re-election after facing the House’s ultimate punishment. Trump is also the first president impeached for abuse of power; a similar charge against Clinton was rejected.

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