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I still don't buy the argument that it's unconstitutional, particularly since there is already historical precedent of a Senate trial after a person has left office.
But Belknap was eventually acquitted, with the Senate failing to muster the two-thirds vote needed to convict. (A significant number of senators believed the Senate lacked jurisdiction to convict him because he no longer held office.)
Meet the other American who was impeached and tried after leaving office
And the same thing will happen this time. The dems are courting disaster for themselves by pushing this agenda. If Trump violated the law then as a private citizen there is nothing to prevent him being charged in federal court.....except the knowledge that any such charge would not pass muster. That's why the dems are pushing this; simply trying to get their pound of flesh.
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