The GOP senator is the first senator in the history of the United States to vote for the impeachment of a president from the lawmaker's own party.
A lone senator broke from party ranks Wednesday to vote for President Donald Trump's removal from office on one impeachment charge of abuse of power.
"The president's purpose was personal and political. Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust," Romney, who voted to acquit for the second article on obstruction of Congress, said in a floor speech."What he did was not perfect, no. It was a flagrant assault under electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values.
Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters upon arrival to the U.S. Capitol for the Senate impeachment trial on January 29 in Washington, D.C.Still, the final tallies for the abuse of power and obstruction of Congress articles, 48-52 and 47-53, respectively, made Trump the third president in American history to be acquitted of articles of impeachment.
In the hours leading up to the vote, questions lingered over who—if any—senators would break from their party. A, though they were unsuccessful in preventing the articles from advancing to the Senate.
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