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Senate Votes Against Impeachment Of Donald Trump

On Wednesday, the Senate brought an end end to only the third presidential trial in American history.
Following months of undergoing impeachment hearings, the Senate ultimately decided to acquit Donald Trump of the charges he faced.
Mitt Romney of Utah, who was defeated in the 2012 presidential race, was the only republican to break from the GOP’s vote.
As a result, for the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, the vote was 52-48 favoring acquittal. The second, obstruction of Congress, also produced a not guilty verdict, with a vote of 53-47.
A majority of senators, however, did express unease with Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine which resulted in the two articles of impeachment. Two-thirds of the senators would have had to vote “guilty” to reach the Constitution’s bar of high crimes and misdemeanors to convict and remove Trump from office.
Trump’s political campaign tweeted videos, statements and a cartoon dance celebration, while the he put his twitter fingers to use and tweeted that he would speak Thursday from the White House about “our Country’s VICTORY on the Impeachment Hoax.”

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Donald Trump Reveals Plans To Expand Travel Ban; Could Include Nigeria, Tanzania, Sudan, and More!

On Tuesday, Donald Trump revealed that he is currently planning to expand the highly controversial travel ban he put in place at the start of his term. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal he declined to name the specific countries that will be added, but an official announcement could be given as soon as Monday.
Although the list of countries is not yet final and could be changed, two people close to the matter say Belarus, Myanmar (also known as Burma), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania are among those to be potentially added.
If enforced, the Trump administration would place immigration restrictions on the listed countries, but would not necessarily completely ban all their citizens from entering the US. The restrictions could also apply only to certain government officials, certain types of visas, or in the case of certain instances.
On Jan. 27, 2017, just a week into his tenure, Trump signed the original travel ban. Initially, the order denied visas to citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, though it was later modified as it went through a series of court challenges. Chad was removed from the finalized list, however, it restricts entry of some citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.

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