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Donald Trump acquitted of incitement of insurrection in second Senate impeachment trial
The US Senate has voted to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
A two-thirds majority — 67 or more guilty votes — was required to convict the former president.
Senators voted 57-43 guilty on the charge of incitement of insurrection.
In the vote, seven of the 50 Senate Republicans joined the chamber’s unified Democrats in favouring conviction.
The vote came at the conclusion of a five-day trial — Mr Trump’s second impeachment trial in 12 months — which was held in the same US Capitol building ransacked by his followers on January 6.
With Mr Trump having left office on January 20, a successful impeachment conviction could not have been…
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