The U.S. Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Wednesday, February 5. Unsurprisingly, parliamentarians found the President of the United States not guilty on two counts: abuse of power and obstruction of the proper functioning of Congress.

The Upper House found the president not guilty of abuse of office by 52 votes to 48, an almost faithful reflection of the balance of power between the Republican majority and the Democratic minority, Mitt Romney being the only Republican to side with the Democrats. It then found the President not guilty of obstructing the work of Congress by 53 votes to 47.

Donald Trump was the third President of the United States to be removed from office after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998, both of whom were also acquitted.

This vote puts an end to a procedure initiated this fall by the Democrats, majority in the House of Representatives, and concretized by the formal indictment of the American president on December 18 last in plenary session.

He was accused of having pressured his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimir Zelenski and conditioned the release of military aid to the opening by the Ukrainian authorities of investigations against Joe Biden, his possible Democratic opponent in the presidential election next November .

With Reuters

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