US President Donald Trump has been discharged and acquitted by the US senate over the charges of obstruction of congress and abuse of power levelled against him by the House of Reps.
On Wednesday, the Republican majority senate voted against impeaching the president, bringing the impeachment trial to an end.
Chief Justice Roberts announced after the vote. “48 senators have pronounced Donald John Trump, president of the United States, guilty as charged. 52 senators have announced him not guilty as charged. 2/3 of the senators present not finding him guilty, the Senate judges Donald John Trump – the president of the United States – is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment”
The impeachment process initiated by House speaker Nancy Pelosi started on the 24th of September after a whistleblower complaint alleged that Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine in exchange for launching investigations into his political rival, Joe Biden