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President Trump Impeached Along Party Lines -- News Roundup

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Daily Mail: Donald Trump is IMPEACHED on TWO charges. House votes 230 to 197 to charge him with 'abuse of power' and 229 to 198 with 'obstructing Congress' - making him only the third president ever to be put on trial in the Senate

* Donald Trump became the third American president to be impeached
* House approved two articles of impeachment on a largely party-line vote
* The vote on the first article of impeachment - abuse of power - was 230 to 197
* The vote on the second article - obstruction of Congress - was 229 to 198
* Nancy Pelosi said Donald Trump gave them no choice but to impeach him
* 'It is tragic that the president's reckless actions make impeachment necessary. He gave us no choice,' she said
* She threatened not to send impeachment articles to the Senate until Mitch McConnell announced the process under which the Senate would hold its trial
* Vote came as Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Michigan
* 'It doesn't really feel like we're being impeached,' he said
* 'I'm having a good time, it's crazy,' he remarked later after the vote concluded

Donald Trump became the third president in American history to be impeached on Wednesday on a largely party line vote, setting up a formal trial next year in the Senate.

The impeachment vote capped off a three month investigation into the president's actions in regard to the Ukraine. The vote came at the end of a day long partisan debate on the House floor with Republicans charging Democrats with wanting to over turn the last presidential election and Democrats arguing the president tried to use a foreign power to help him win re-election.

'A great day for the constitution of the United States,' Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after the votes concluded.

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