Donald Trump will not be the first US president dismissed following an impeachment procedure. Like Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton before him, he was acquitted this Wednesday by the Senate. A verdict without surprise, so much the hypothesis of seeing the republican elected officials turn at the last minute against the chief of the executive was improbable.
The president was charged with abuse of power and obstructing the smooth running of Congress. Trump is said to have weighed in on crucial military aid to Ukraine to get Kiev investigating Joe Biden, his possible Democratic opponent in November, and his son Hunter.
It took a two-thirds majority of the seats - 67 out of 100 - for the president to be found guilty. A figure impossible to reach with a Senate held by the Republicans. The vote almost perfectly embodies the dividing line that runs across the country. If all elected Democrats voted to end Trump's presidential term prematurely, only one in 53 Senators from the "Grand Old Party" believed that he had committed an abuse of power.
Mitt Romney, the only Republican to step out
This is Mitt Romney, the 2012 unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate against Barack Obama, who has often been very critical of the occupant of the Oval Office. For Utah senator, Trump's conduct was "a blatant assault on electoral rights, national security and our fundamental values: spoiling an election to stay in power is perhaps the most serious and destructive of the oath " Of the president.
With this "witch hunt" behind him, as he has repeatedly called this procedure impeachment, Donald Trump will be able to focus on his campaign to be re-elected. "Unlike so many others before me, I keep my promises," he said to Congress Tuesday during the traditional State of the Union address.
The visionaries are for the moment green for the president, credited with 49% of favorable opinions in the last Gallup poll, a figure never reached since his arrival at the White House in January 2017. The concerns encountered by the Democrats for the kicking off their primaries is not to displease him either. The Iowa poll turned into a farce due to technical problems. Proof according to Trump of the "incompetence" of his opponents.