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"Pray for me". Donald Trump kicks off the day this Wednesday asking his millions of supporters to pray for him, hours before the start of a debate in the Capitol before a historic vote in the House of Representatives, where congressmen had to approve if he submits to the president of The United States to a political trial that could eventually lead to his removal from the scandal known as 'Ukrainegate'.

"Can you believe that the radical left will subject me to political trial without doing anything wrong? It's terrible, read the transcripts. This should never happen to another president. Pray for me!" Trump wrote in his Twitter account, where he spent a good part of the day sharing messages of support from his followers and criticizing the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

The debate has formally started this noon, local time, where congressmen have not yet voted on the two "articles of impeachment" that accuse the president of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and that finally be approved as planned, He will move the debate to the Senate, where the options to get ahead of Trump's political trial are void.

Some have referred to this historic day at the Capitol as a "turning point" for American democracy. "It is a fact that the president is a threat to our national security and integrity of our elections, the pillars of our democracy," said Nancy Pelosi, who has lamented that this day will be remembered as a "sad" day in the books of History.

The Democratic opposition, which has a majority in this House but not in the Senate, has defended its arguments during the debate in favor of celebrating what will be the third political trial in history against a president, claiming that Trump retained military aid to a country foreigner approved by Congress in exchange for obtaining personal political favors, with the sole purpose of interfering in the 2020 elections.

Other congressmen went out to defend the president with nails and teeth and insisted that the attempt at a political trial is based on "rumors, speculation and presumptions" and, therefore, should not be held. "I will not vote [against] forced by my party, but convinced that it is the right thing. It is possible to defend the president and the Constitution at the same time and that is what I am going to do," said Republican Tom Cole.

While the congressmen debate inside the House of Representatives, hundreds of people have come to the doors of the Capitol to show their support for the political trial, on a morning of freezing temperatures in the US capital, where the spirits are rather heated with dozens of banners that could read messages like "Trump is not above the law," "chief criminal" or "'fake president."

A support that has also been seen in other big cities like New York or Chicago but that does not transcend in the polls. Donald Trump's approval rating has risen six points since the Democrats began the process against him three months ago and now stands at 45%, according to a new study by the consultant Gallup that also reveals that the rejection of the political trial has continued to rise to 51%.

With their 233 representatives in the Lower House, made up of 431 seats, the Democrats take it for granted that the vote will go ahead, since only 216 votes are needed to transfer the 'impeachment' to the Senate, where Republicans have control. For that reason, the options to prosper the political judgment are null, since in the Upper House two thirds of the 100 senators are necessary to dismiss the president.

The process will continue from January in the Senate, where Trump is calm, because Republicans have closed ranks. But regardless of the final result, the current tenant of the White House will go down in history as the third president undergoing a political trial, a sad privilege that Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton had in the past, although none ended up dismissed.

Aware that he could do nothing to change the historic vote on Wednesday, the president already sent on Tuesday a tough six-page letter to Nancy Pelosi in which he introduced himself as a victim of the Democrats for depriving him of the "basic right to due process, "coming to compare the process with the Salem witch trials at the end of the 17th century.

The reactions to the historic day have come from all areas. "We need a president that our children can be proud of," said Democratic candidate Joe Biden. "The president abused his powers to cheat in the elections [...] and then obstructed Congress to cover everything up. That is why impeachment is the only remedy," Hillary Clinton tweeted.

From the White House they say that the president will spend the rest of the day "working", but the truth is that Trump is very aware of the debate, since he has repeatedly appealed to his speaker on Twitter to reiterate his innocence and throw balls out. "This is an assault on the United States and an assault on the Republican party," he wrote, knowing that his fate was already cast.

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