US President Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president the country’s history to be impeached twice, as 10 of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to charge him with inciting an insurrection in last week’s violent rampage in the Capitol. Ten Republicans broke ranks and voted to impeach Trump on a day when the debate moved at lightning speed, much of it charged by the bipartisan anger at the scale of the January 6 violence.
In the process, Donald Trump’s place in history has been redefined. Still defiant, Trump will go out of the White House as only the first president ever in American history to be impeached twice. While the word ‘impeachment’ is being flashed on most news channels and topping the trends on social media, what exactly does it mean?
What is impeachment in the US constitution?
The founders of the United States feared presidents abusing their powers, so they included in the Constitution a process for removing…