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The Senate acquitted the former president on Saturday night (Greek time) Donald trump, as reported by the French News Agency (AFP).
According to the Associated Press, his acquittal Triumph imposes his acquittal of the charge of inciting the bloody riots that occurred on January 6 in his building Capitol and it had cost five people’s lives.
At the same time, as the same source states, it also recommends a victory for the American president, who was referred twice during his tenure and acquitted both.
THE Senate they voted 57 in favor of Trump’s acquittal, while 43 senators voted against.
Under the Constitution of the United States, for his sentence the votes of 2/3 of the total of senators or 67 votes would be required.
For its part, Democratic deputies argued that the Triumph it was he who provoked the violent attack on the Capitol, repeating for months false accusations that “the electoral victory was stolen from his hands”, and then he had called his followers to “fight furiously”, shortly before the siege of the building – landmark of the American power.
Contrary to these accusations they moved the defenders of the former president of the United States, who attributed the trial to an “outbreak of hatred” by Democrats against Trump. They themselves claimed that the protesters on Capitol Hill moved of their own free will, despite Trump’s statements and claimed that the former president was protected by freedom of expression. They described their reference as “an act that could provoke a dangerous judicial precedent».
If Trump had been convicted, the Senate would have had to carry out a second vote, with the question of the final deprivation of his right to be elected.
In addition to Trump, it is recalled that two other former US presidents, Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999, had been referred to the Senate, but both were acquitted.
