Senate votes to impeach Trump
It's the senate that would vote to impeach, not the house, right?
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Only two U.S. Presidents have been impeached by the House of Representatives. The first was Andrew Johnson, in 1868, for dismissing Edwin M. Stanton as secretary of war and the second was Bill Clinton, in 1998 for charges of lying under oath in regards to sexual relations with a White House intern.
No, the House of Representatives does the impeachment, which is essentially an indictment. A lot of people seem to think it's a conviction, but it isn't. The president then has to be tried by the senate. Johnson and Clinton were both acquitted by the senate. So nothing really happened to them, other than the black mark of having official charges levied upon them. And the court of public opinion I guess. Plus Clinton was disbarred in Arkansas, but only for five years (like it mattered at that point).
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