The second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump has ended in acquittal because 43 republican senators voted to do so. It takes 67 votes to convict. But the big story here and the most important one is that the majority vote in the senate was 57 - 43 that found the President guilty as charged in the impeachment and those 57 votes were non-partisan being cast by 48 democrats, 2 independents and 7 republicans.
The other part of the story being the 43 votes cast all by republicans which was a partisan vote by 43 senators who made up their mind before they even heard the evidence and who have been silent on the mob attack on the capitol on January 6. The un-American attitude by those 43 republican senators and the actions by several republican legislators and other GOP groups that censured those republicans in the U.S. House and Senate who voted to convict Trump are both deplorable and un-American. The censure actions was an authoritarian act by the GOP who work over time to undermine the constitution and the democratic process of the country's elections.
The 57 - 43 majority guilty vote will be remembered in history as the vote that told the real story of this impeachment, especially because of its non-partisan nature. All of the other comments and self serving statements that will follow in the coming weeks will only serve one purpose. And that is to fill up time and space which the pundits and the news media have a lot of.
But the real story on the issues will continue to be told by PolitiDose, your daily dose of political commentary.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
