Senators voted on Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump of abuse of power ― without first hearing from witnesses or examining new documents in his impeachment trial, and even though some Republicans agreed the president had done exactly what he was accused of.
The final vote on the first article of impeachment was 48-52, far short of the supermajority needed to convict.
Democrats were unified in voting to convict Trump. Only one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, wanted to convict the president for abuse of power.
On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, the Senate acquitted Trump by a vote of 47-53. (Romney voted to acquit the president on the second article.)
Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate a political rival ahead of the 2020 election, blocked Congress in its efforts to investigate his actions and now has been given the OK by the Senate.
He becomes the third president in U.S. history to be acquitted after being impeached in the House. But Trump has his own distinction: He is the only president to go through a Senate impeachment trial that heard from no witnesses. | 
