-- The U.S. House voted to impeach President Donald Trump over "incitement of insurrection," making him the first president to be impeached twice.
-- What's more striking than Trump's history-making second impeachment is that the divide his four-year term has brought to the country may last well beyond his departure.
-- With Trump being impeached, all eyes have turned to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who will decide when to hold the Senate trial that will determine the president's fate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 -- In a heavily fortified U.S. Capitol building, a majority of bipartisan members of the House voted in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of inciting an insurrection last week at the very building in which the lawmakers cast their votes.
Following the 232-197 vote on the single article of impeachment, Trump became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. What distinguished the second impeachment from the first one, though, was that this time 10 Republicans cast the "yea" vote while none of the House GOP members crossed the party line last time.
A man holding an "impeach" banner walks near the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., the United States, Jan. 13, 2021. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
TRUMP IMPEACHED AGAIN
"The resolution (of impeachment) is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced while gaveling the vote down.
"I sadly and with a heart broken over what this means to our country, of a president who would incite insurrection, will sign the engrossment of the article of impeachment," Pelosi said after the vote, speaking behind a lectern which photos showed was removed last week by a rioter from its original place in the House chamber.
Kicking off the debate over the article of impeachment earlier in the day, Pelosi said the president "incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country," citing the Capitol riot by Trump loyalists last week. "He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love," she added.
