{"id":6853,"date":"2020-02-05T22:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2020-02-05T22:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:11:06","slug":"trump-not-guilty-senate-acquits-trump-of-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/2020\/02\/05\/trump-not-guilty-senate-acquits-trump-of-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP NOT GUILTY: Senate acquits Trump of impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/trump.jpg\" class=\"size-full\">WASHINGTON, February 5: President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested civic norms and fed the tumultuous 2020 race for the White House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Article\" data-key=\"article\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; grid-row-start: article; grid-column-start: article; grid-row-end: article; grid-column-end: article; margin-bottom: 3rem; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-48 Component-p-0-2-40\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.75rem 0px; word-wrap: normal; font-size: 1.125rem; font-family: FreightText, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.6875rem; width: 382px\">A<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>majority<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> of <\/span>senators<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>expressed unease with Trump\u2019s pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment. But the final tallies \u2014 52-48 favoring acquittal of abuse of power, 53-47 of obstruction of Congress\u2019 investigation \u2014 fell far short. Two-thirds \u201cguilty\u201d votes would have been needed to reach the Constitution\u2019s bar of high crimes and misdemeanors to convict and remove Trump from office. (AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, February 5: President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential&nbsp;trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested civic norms and fed the tumultuous 2020 race for the White House. A majority of senators expressed unease with Trump\u2019s pressure campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,47,44,1,51,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}