US Reps impeach Trump over Capitol Hill invasion

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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been impeached.

With the development, Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached twice.

The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday after a debate on the article of impeachment read by the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi

The final vote was 232 to 197, with 10 House Republicans supporting the measure, while five abstained, The Guardian UK said.

The matter will now go before the Senate, which will decide whether Trump should be convicted and removed from office or not.

The House voted on a single article of impeachment – a formal charge – accusing Trump of “incitement of insurrection” just a week after a pro-Trump mob rampaged through the US Capitol in a deadly protest.

The rioters disrupted the formal certification of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the November 3 election and sent lawmakers into hiding.