House impeaches President Trump for second time

President Trump was impeached a second time by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday in a largely party-line vote that saw a handful of Republicans join Democrats to blame the outgoing commander-in-chief for sparking last week’s Capitol siege.

The measure reached 217 “yea” votes shortly after 4:20 p.m. to make Trump the only president to be impeached twice.

The final vote was 232-197, with 10 Republicans crossing party lines and four Republicans not voting when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) announced around 4:35 p.m.

No members of the GOP voted in 2019 to impeach Trump the first time.