William Belknap s impeachment trial looms large over Donald Trump case Follow Us
Question of the Day By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
A high federal official who has recently left office. A Senate vote that he can still be tried on impeachment. A widespread belief that he was guilty.
The Senate has seen this movie before.
Nearly 150 years before Tuesday’s 56-44 vote to proceed with a trial against now-private citizen Donald Trump, senators went down the same path with William Belknap, who had led President Ulysses S. Grant‘s War Department, until he resigned under accusations of bribery.