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Feb 15, 2021 06:06 AM EST
On Saturday, seven Republican senators voted alongside 50 Democratic caucus members to convict former President Donald Trump. The final 57-43 count dropped short of the 67 votes expected to convict Trump on the House impeachment accusation of inciting the U.S. unrest on January 6.
The count overall, however, has been touted in U.S. history as the most bipartisan impeachment vote. The acquittal of Trump signals the end of a five-day impeachment trial.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney of Utah, Richard Burr of North Carolina, and Ben Sasse of Nebraska are the GOP senators who supported Trump s conviction. Here is the seven Republican lawmakers stance on why they decided to convict Trump, according to Newsweek:
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a story, largely ginned up, partly as a distraction from the larger investigation. these investigations continue, but particularly on the house side, there are now questions coming from both democrats and republicans about how bipartisan this investigation can be. tonight members of the house intelligence committee, meet to try to find a way forward in the committee s russian investigation. even gop senator john mccain says any hope of a bipartisan effort under the committee s republican chairman devin nunes is now lost. if we re really going to get to the bottom of these things, it s got to be done in a bipartisan fashion and as far as i could tell, congressman nunes killed that. reporter: on friday, the top democrat on the committee congressman adam schiff examined classified intelligence reports of intercepted communications, referencing trump campaign officials. this several days after his gop
committee s russian investigation. even gop senator john mccain says any hope of a bipartisan effort under the committee s republican chairman devin nunes is now lost. if we re really going to get to the bottom of these things, it s got to be done in a bipartisan fashion and as far as i could tell, congressman nunes killed that. reporter: on friday, the top democrat on the committee congressman adam schiff examined classified intelligence reports of intercepted communications, referencing trump campaign officials. this several days after his gop counterpart nunes first viewed them and claimed they showed evidence of possible surveillance of trump advisors. how does the white house know these are the same materials that were shown to the chairman if the white house wasn t aware what the chairman was being shown? these materials were produced in the ordinary course of business. well, the question for the white house and for many spir. spicer