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Live Updates: US Senate Acquits Trump in Final Vote on Impeachment Article

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On Friday, the US Senate completed a question and answer session after interviewing House managers, who act as prosecutors, and the former president’s lawyers.

The impeachment hearing of former President Trump in the US Senate has entered its fifth day.

The senators are expected to hear closing arguments and hold a vote to decide whether to convict or acquit the former president.

Trump is being accused of instigating the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January which resulted in five deaths. His defence team has insisted that his pre-rally speech raised questions about the election's integrity, but was never an incitement to insurrection.

If convicted, Trump could be barred from holding office in the future; however, an acquittal seems more likely as conviction requires a two-thirds supermajority, which will include 17 members of Trump's own party.

This is Trump's second impeachment trial: he had previously been acquitted on both counts in a trial into his alleged pressure on Ukrainian authorities to investigate the Biden family.

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22:54 GMT 13.02.2021

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after former US President Donald Trump was acquitted in a 57-43 Senate vote that she was against the possibility of censuring Trump in the Senate.

"We censure people for using stationery for the wrong purpose, we don't censure people for inciting insurrection," Pelosi said at a Saturday press conference, calling censure "a slap on the wrist."

"Censure is a slap in the face of the Constitution that lets everybody off the hook," Pelosi said.

She said that the House was going to investigate everything regarding the January 6 events at the Capitol, to ensure that such events never happen in the US again.

In the final tally on Saturday, 57 US senators endorsed and 43 rejected a single article of impeachment accusing Trump of inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The conviction required a two-thirds majority vote of at least 67 out of 100 Senators.

In a statement after the vote, Trump said the impeachment trial was "another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country."

Pelosi said in a statement after the Senate vote that it was "so pathetic that [minority leader] Senator [Mitch] McConnell kept the Senate shut down so that the Senate could not receive the Article of Impeachment and has used that as his excuse for not voting to convict Donald Trump."

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US Senate Votes to Acquit Donald Trump on Charges of Inciting Insurrection
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18:49 GMT 13.02.2021

The US Senate agreed on Saturday to not call witnesses, moving closer to reaching a final decision on whether former President Donald Trump incited the January 6 siege of the Capitol.

The Senate skipped testimony, opting instead to admit a written statement from Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, after initially voting 55-45 to consider hearing witnesses.

The trial resumed after a several hours’ delay, with the defense and the prosecution returning to the stand to deliver their closing arguments. The legal process now appears to be back on track toward a speedy completion.

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US senators voted on Saturday in favour of considering witness testimonies in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.

The 55-45 vote will potentially delay the legal process.

The Senate was expected to deliver a final verdict on Saturday, with many doubting they would reach the two-thirds majority needed to convict Trump on a charge of inciting his supporters to storm the capitol on 6 January.

The Democratic prosecutor now plans to call Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican representative, to the witness stand to ask her about a phone call that took place between Trump and House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy during the riot.

Donald Trump’s legal team has urged the Senate to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional given that Trump is no longer in office.

15:23 GMT 13.02.2021
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