– George Orwell, "1984"The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump ended not with a bang but a whimper. When the House of Representatives voted in favor of two articles of impeachment against Trump, it characterized his lawlessness as contempt of Congress and an abuse of power. Both Republican- and Democratic-controlled Houses of Representatives have deemed such presidential instructions in an impeachment inquiry as impeachable per se. Because the solicitation that Trump committed was a crime against the government, it is among those referred to when the Constitution was written as a "high" crime. At the same time, two signal events occurred in the impeachment trial.

Source: Fox News February 06, 2020 05:37 UTC