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The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for "high crimes and misdemeanors" — specifically, for inciting an insurrection against the federal government at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump has now become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.

Ten Republicans broke party ranks to vote in favor of impeachment

The House of Representatives approved one article of impeachment Wednesday against President Trump for "incitement of insurrection," with 10 Republicans joining all Democrats in a 232-197 vote.

She never spoke on the House floor and made it known she thought it was a vote of conscience, but her vote could potentially cost her spot at the leadership table.

Now he has a distinction in the history books that no president wants — the first to be impeached twice.

House impeaches Trump for 'incitement of insurrection'

The House voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a swift and bipartisan condemnation of the President's role inciting last week's riot at the US Capitol.

The House voted 232 to 197 to impeach Trump

events of Jan. 6. Our democratic institutions were assaulted.

All responsible parties, including President Trump, must face justice.

make the wrong decision in how to hold him accountable, it could damage the integrity of our system of justice, further fan the flames of division, and disillusion millions of Americans ─ all while failing to accomplish anything.

President Donald Trump is leaving America in a vortex of violence, sickness and death and more internally estranged than it has been for 150 years.

Hospitals are swamped and medical workers are shattered amid a faltering rollout of the vaccine supposed to end the crisis.

It took 200 years for the country to rack up its first two presidential impeachments.

What were the consequences?According to some accounts, Johnson wept at the news of his acquittal, vowing to devote himself to restoring his reputation.He served out the rest of his presidential term, but his final months in office were beset with the same power struggles that warped his tenure prior to impeachment.

What were the consequences? Vice-President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president six weeks later, and pardoned Nixon for any crimes he had committed while in office.

And buying Alaska in 1867 for a cool $7.2m.Johnson was also one of the poorest presidents. He never went to school.

These 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday

The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump

10 House Republicans. That includes

Exactly one week after security forces with guns drawn defended the House of Representatives against an angry mob, legislators gathered in the same chamber to impeach the president that mob supported.

Exactly one week after security forces with guns drawn defended the House of Representatives against an angry mob, legislators gathered in the same chamber to impeach the president that mob supported.

"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,"

“which would definitely take their focus away from the campaign.”But Yang said that wouldn’t affect his presence on the campaign trail.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Friday was named the recipient of the 2021 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his “courageous” vote to impeach former President Donald Trump for abuse of power. 

During Trump’s first impeachment trial last year, Romney became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from his own party. 

“Senator Romney’s commitment to our Constitution makes him a worthy successor to the senators who inspired my father to write ‘Profiles in Courage,’”

House pushes for Trump's removal after deadly Capitol riot

Some House Democrats think their party leaders made a strategic mistake by calling for a vote

President Trump needs to be removed immediately. 

Almost 6 in 10 Americans said they blame President Trump for the violent insurrection that took place Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol

and half believe social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter — which have banned him from their platforms — should not continue to restrict Trump after Wednesday.

Eight in 10 Republicans disagree that Trump is to blame for the violence, don't believe social media companies should continue restrictions on him and don't trust that results of the 2020 election were accurate.

In a matter of hours on Jan. 6, the Republican Party went from shrugging off its loss of the White House to a party in crisis.

making President Trump the first president since Herbert Hoover whose party lost the White House, the House and the Senate in one term.

Now, Trump leaves office as the only president to be impeached twice, and the House vote against Trump over the Capitol insurrection marked the most bipartisan impeachment in U.S. history.

In the wake of his second impeachment at the hands of the House on Wednesday, Trump told people around him to stop paying Giuliani's legal fees.

"Trump has been blaming his longtime personal attorney and many others for the predicament he now finds himself in

but has been left out of most conversations thus far."

“I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny — fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear,” she said. “I doubt if the Republican Party could — simply because I don’t believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely, we Republicans aren’t that desperate for victory.”

sometimes the point is just to get people to look up.

The problem with politicians who abuse power isn’t that they don’t get results. It’s that the results come at a high cost to the Republic — and to the reputations of those who lack the courage or wisdom to resist.

The Fox Business Network announced on Friday that it had parted ways with Trish Regan, the conservative news host who ignited controversy earlier this month when she dismissed the coronavirus pandemic as a conspiracy to throw President Trump out of office.

Regan faced fierce criticism earlier this month when she described the coronavirus to her viewers as an "impeachment scam."

"This is impeachment all over again," Regan said at the time, claiming Trump's critics were using the pandemic to spark panic and destabilize the economy to harm his chances of being re-elected.

Some of the lowest points for Trump over the last two years revolved around Biden.

Biden had merely announced he was running for president earlier that year.

There are killers, and there are losers.

Throughout his life, the President has seemingly operated with that conviction

the President has seemingly operated with that conviction

In anticipation of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s recent public testimony in the House’s impeachment inquiry, the Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a guest concocted an insulting fantasy on her show: the idea that Colonel Vindman might be a Ukrainian spy.

as a former Fox News opinion talk-show guest host and contributor for 14 years, it didn’t shock me.

First, we must talk about narratives. In my time at Fox News, narratives were weapons of mass emotional manipulation, what the Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller defines in “Narrative Economics” as “contagious stories” — as he put it in a paper of the same name, “a simple story or easily expressed explanation of events that many people want to bring up in conversation or on news or social media because it can be used to stimulate the concerns or emotions of others, and/or because it appears to advance self-interest.”