The US House of Representatives refers Trump’s impeachment resolution to the Senate

On Wednesday night, in a historic vote, the US House of Representatives referred President Donald Trump to trial before the Senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, thereby becoming the third president in US history to face formal removal.

The 73-year-old Republican president rushed to condemn the historic vote against him in the House of Representatives, accusing his Democratic opponents who control the House of being driven by “envy, hatred and anger” and “trying to nullify the vote of tens of millions of Americans” who elected him president in 2016.

With a majority of 230 votes to 197 and one abstention, the Democratic-dominated House of Representatives agreed to charge the abuse of power to the 45th president of the United States.

Minutes later, the council charged Trump with a second charge, obstructing the work of Congress, which passed 229 votes to 198, and one abstention.

With the House of Representatives approval of the indictment, the case moved to the Senate, which will likely begin Trump’s January trial.

However, unlike the House of Representatives, the Senate is dominated by Republicans by a majority of 53 senators compared to 47, and these have previously confirmed that they intend to absolve Trump of these two charges.

Nevertheless, the vote that took place in the House of Representatives on Wednesday remains historic, as in the history of the entire United States, only two Presidents were tried by the Senate, Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998, both of whom were acquitted in the Senate.

As for Richard Nixon, he resigned in 1974 before the House of Representatives voted to refer him to trial on the grounds of the Watergate scandal.

Ironically, while the House of Representatives was voting on Trump’s accusation, the Republican billionaire, a thousand kilometers from Washington, was addressing a crowd of his supporters at an election rally in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Trump was quick to condemn the House decision, saying, “While we create jobs and fight for Michigan, the radical left in Congress is enraged by envy, hatred and anger, and you see what is going on now”.

He added that “the Democrats are trying to nullify the vote of tens of millions of Americans” who elected him president in 2016, accusing his opponents of having just committed a process of “political suicide”.

The landmark decision of the House of Representatives came less than a year before the November 2020 presidential elections that Trump intends to run for a second term.

With the exception of a very small number, most of the Democratic representatives voted in favor of the indictment, and most of the Republican deputies voted against it, while the session, which ended at the end of the voting, lasted for many hours, exchanged accusations between the two parties.

Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said at the start of the session that it was “tragic that the president’s reckless behavior made it necessary to start isolation measures”, adding, “What we are discussing today is the established fact that the president violated the constitution”.

Certainly, as a fact, the president represents a constant threat to our national security and the integrity of our elections.

Republican Representative Dag Collins denied this and said, “The president did not make a mistake”, stressing that the Democrats “said to themselves”, If we cannot defeat him (in the elections), let us try him to isolate him.

The Americans will see this clearly”.

As for Debbie Lesco, the Republic of Arizona, she said that Trump was being subjected to “the most unfair and political bias in my life that I’ve seen”.

“There is no evidence that the president committed a breach of necessity for isolation… This is the most partisan isolation process in the history of the United States”.

For his part, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who oversaw the investigation, said that the Republican billionaire “was ready to sacrifice our national security (…) in order to enhance his chances of re-election”, and accused the President of “trying to cheat and expose”, stressing that “the danger is Still standing”.

Trump was anticipating the session by asserting that he had not committed “any error”, the day after he sent a letter to Pelosi in which he compared the isolation measures to “an attempted coup”.

“Can you believe that my isolation measures will be launched today by the radical left, by the Democrats who are not doing anything, while I have done nothing wrong”!

The president said in a tweet on Twitter.

It is terrible, “he said“.

This shouldn’t happen with any other president”.

On Tuesday, Trump said in an extraordinary six-page letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives that “history will judge you harshly”, accusing the veteran Democratic leader of “violating her loyalty to the constitution” and declaring “an open war against American democracy”.

Pelosi replied to Trump by saying his message was “really sick.”

Trump is accused of trying to pressure Ukraine to open an investigation into his main opponent in the 2020 election, Joe Biden.

He is also accused of obstructing Congress by refusing to cooperate with the investigation to isolate him, as he prevented employees from testifying and refused to provide documents as evidence.

The sharp polarization between the two parties in the House of Representatives was reflected in recent opinion polls.

Fifty percent of those polled by Fox News said they support Trump’s removal from office, while 41 percent said they refused to remove him.

In another CNN poll, 45 percent of respondents said they support the removal of the president, while 47 percent say they reject it.

In a third poll conducted by “NBC” and the “Wall Street Journal”, the result was equal between 48% support isolating it and 48% oppose it.

In the House of Representatives, some Democratic representatives representing conservative areas risked losing the elections next year by voting in favor of removing the president, but they nevertheless decided to line up behind their party to vote.

Demonstrations in favor of Trump’s isolation were recorded in several cities, including New York, Boston, New Orleans, and Los Angeles.

Trump’s supporters in Battle Creek, on the other hand, considered that what happened to the president is unfair.

“There is an innocent man on trial for a lot of nonsense”, said one of Trump’s supporters, Wendy Timmerman, while another supporter, Joe Pontrager, said, “I have no doubt: This is a fraud”!