Trump impeachment news: President tweets video boasting about re-election as Senate votes to acquit president
The US Senate has acquitted Donald Trump in a historic impeachment vote on Wednesday afternoon, as Utah Republican Mitt Romney broke ranks to join a united Democratic Party in voting to convict the president for wrongdoing over his Ukraine dealings.
The Utah Republican said in a speech on the floor of the Senate that Mr Trump was “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust”, though he noted the president’s acquittal was nearly all but certain given a Republican majority — which has stood by Mr Trump’s side throughout the impeachment process. He was the only senator to break rank on either impeachment charge.
But the ultimate acquittal has been heralded by Mr Trump and his allies.
Mr Trump is expected to deliver an address on impeachment on Thursday, and celebrated the vote with a tweet showing him running for office in perpetuity.
His adult daughter and White House adviser, Ivanka Trump, also celebrated online, urging unity going forward and promising that her father was just getting started.
Rudy Giuliani also weighed in, saying in a tweet that his presidential client had been, ""Acquitted for life!"
The president is meanwhile lashing out at House speaker Nancy Pelosi on social media with a steady stream of poisonous retweets after she stole the limelight from his “great and triumphant” State of the Union address on Tuesday night by tearing up her copy of his speech. Speaking afterwards, Ms Pelosi derided his blustering pronouncements as a “manifesto of untruths”.
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