A historic rebuke of Donald Trump: 3 takeaways

By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Jan 14 : Less than 24 hours ago, when Donald John Trump became the first President in the 244-year history of the United States to have been impeached twice, it was a historic rebuke.
On January 13, 2021, Trump was charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly siege of the US Capitol a week ago as his presidency hurtles towards a stunning collapse. It was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in modern times, even more than against Bill Clinton in 1998.
We break it down to three standout themes.
Final tally: 232-197:Only 10 out of 211 Republicans voted to impeach Trump. At one level, it shows the sway Trump still extends, it also tells us the dam broke. When Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, the most unsentimental Republican in the chamber, said he was “pleased” with the impeachment article, the ground beneath Trump opened. What seemed impossible a year ago seemed within reach – that enough Republican senators might defy Trump and vote to remove him during a trial. Those Republicans who voted to impeach in the House included political heavyweights including Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney, whose father Dick Cheney served as vice president under George W. Bush.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” said Cheney.
The final 232-197 tally was a stark departure from Trump’s first impeachment which played out along partisan lines. Action now shifts to the Senate but not immediately.