Former President Donald J. Trump's defense team after the second impeachment trial ended in acquittal on 13 February 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
By Priscilla Huff Washington, DC
Even before the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump a second time, there was deep skepticism there was the political appetite in the U.S. Senate to convict the 45th President of the United States.
In the end, seven Republican senators voted in favor of convicting Donald John Trump on the article of impeachment: incitement of an insurrection. The U.S. Constitution requires not just a majority, but two-thirds of the U.S. Senate to agree, 67 out of 100. The president pro tempore of the Senate, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), confirmed that the motion to convict the former president failed on a vote of 57-43.
