A report on First impeachment of Donald Trump

Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment
Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019
Nancy Pelosi engrossing the articles of impeachment on January 15, 2020
Donald Trump holds up a copy of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal during remarks on February 6, 2020 in the East Room of the White House

Impeached for the first time by the House of Representatives of the 116th United States Congress on December 18, 2019.

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Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment

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Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019

Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump

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Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019

The inquiry process which preceded the first impeachment of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, was initiated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on September 24, 2019, after a whistleblower alleged that Donald Trump may have abused the power of the presidency.

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Donald Trump

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American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964
Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan
Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan
Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City
Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower
Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009
Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000
Trump speaking at CPAC 2011
Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.
2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227
Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017
Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts
Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017
Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church
Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.
Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019
Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.
Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020
Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018
Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019
Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.
Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020
Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.
Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020
Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019
Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate
Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona
2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump
Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.
Trump talking to the press, March 2017
Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.

After he pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden in 2019, he was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in December.

Chief Justice John Roberts presides over the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump

First impeachment trial of Donald Trump

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The first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, began in the U.S. Senate on January 16, 2020, and concluded with his acquittal on February 5.

The first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, began in the U.S. Senate on January 16, 2020, and concluded with his acquittal on February 5.

Chief Justice John Roberts presides over the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump
Senator Chuck Grassley administers the oath of office to Chief Justice John Roberts on January 16, 2020
Representative Adam Schiff reads the Articles of Impeachment before the Senate
Senator Dianne Feinstein signs the oath book
Senator Chris Murphy's question presented to the House Managers.

After an inquiry between September to November 2019, President Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on December 18, 2019; the articles of impeachment charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

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Nancy Pelosi

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American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011.

American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011.

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Pelosi, her mother, and President John F. Kennedy watch as her father is sworn in as a member of the Renegotiation Board, 1961.
Pelosi as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1993
President George W. Bush meets with Speaker-designate Pelosi and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer on November 9, 2006.
Pelosi and Barack Obama shaking hands at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
President Barack Obama meets with Congressional Leadership, July 2011.
Pelosi speaking at the United States Department of Labor on Equal Pay Day
Pelosi greets DREAMers fasting outside the Capitol, September 2017.
Congressional leaders in January 2020
Pelosi signs the article of impeachment for the second impeachment of Donald Trump on January 13, 2021.
Pelosi delivers remarks on the American Rescue Plan in March 2021.
Pelosi and Keith Ellison at his swearing-in ceremony with Thomas Jefferson's Quran in 2007
Pelosi with Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in 2012
Pelosi at the 2013 San Francisco Pride Festival
Capitol workers remove the portrait of former House Speaker Howell Cobb of Georgia from a wall in the Speaker's Lobby of the U.S. Capitol.
Pelosi at the Tax March in San Francisco, April 2017
Nancy Pelosi at 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25)
Nancy Pelosi at 2019 End Gun Violence, September 27, 2019
President George W. Bush and Pelosi honoring 300 Tuskegee Airmen at the Capitol, March 2007
Donald Trump with Pelosi in January 2017
Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have supported Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
Pelosi with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a trip to China in 2009
Pelosi with Hong Kong activists who have become prominent figures in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
Pelosi and John Kerry at Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba, March 2016
Pelosi before greeting the new King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, January 2015
Pelosi with service members stationed at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, 2010
Pelosi at AIPAC's annual Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
Pelosi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, January 2020
Pelosi meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, and ambassador Sergey Kislyak, June 2010
The city of San Francisco named a street in Golden Gate Park in honor of Pelosi after her many years representing the city in Congress.
Pelosi at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2022

Under Pelosi's leadership, the House twice impeached President Donald Trump, first in December 2019, and again in January 2021; Trump was acquitted both times by the Senate.

The House of Representatives votes to adopt the article of impeachment

Second impeachment of Donald Trump

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Impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired.

Impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired.

The House of Representatives votes to adopt the article of impeachment
Speaker Nancy Pelosi signs the article of impeachment following passage by the House.
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It was the fourth impeachment of a U.S. president, and the second for Trump after his first impeachment in December 2019.

116th United States Congress

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Meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

2019 State of the Union Address
House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment.
Chief Justice John Roberts presided over the Impeachment trial of Donald Trump
Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed the future Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act.
President Trump signing the Dingell Act, March 12, 2019
President Trump signing the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, together with Executive Order 13936, July 14, 2020
The Green New Deal, championed by Democrats upon their new House majority, was proposed by Senator Ed Markey (speaking) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (next to him), February 7, 2019
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September 24, 2019: First impeachment of Donald Trump: House opened an Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump after a whistleblower alleged the President abused his power in a phone call with the President of Ukraine.

2020 United States presidential election

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The 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

The 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

States and territories with at least one local, state, or federal primary election date or method of voting altered as of August 5, 2020.
A poll worker sanitizes an election booth in Davis, California
Chart of July 2020 opinion survey on likelihood of voting by mail in November election, compared to 2016
President Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her family, just prior to Barrett being announced as the nominee, September 26, 2020
George Floyd protests in Minneapolis on May 26
Early voting in Cleveland, Ohio
Hexagonal cartogram of the number of electoral college votes. States with opposite outcomes from 2016 are hatched.
People celebrate in the streets near the White House after the major networks projected Biden the winner of the election on November 7.
Senator Chuck Schumer addresses a crowd celebrating in Times Square, New York City shortly after the election was called for Biden.
Voters cast ballots at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa
Screenshot of a tweet from Trump's Twitter account where he repeatedly and falsely claimed he had won.
CNN fact checker Daniel Dale reported that through June 9, 2021, Trump had issued 132 written statements since leaving office, of which "a third have included lies about the election"—more than any other subject.
Pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6
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Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
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A continuous county-level cartogram of the 2020 United States presidential election
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Counties shaded by margin of victory

The House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump on two counts on December 18, 2019.

Presidency of Donald Trump

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Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021.

Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021.

The 2016 presidential electoral vote. Five individuals besides Trump and Clinton received electoral votes from faithless electors.
Outgoing President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016
Donald Trump's official portrait before his swearing in ceremony.
Inauguration swearing-in ceremony
Cabinet meeting, March 2017
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her family with Trump on September 26, 2020
Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, (orange) the Toronto Star, and CNN (blue) compiled data on "false or misleading claims" and "false claims," respectively. The peaks in late 2018 correspond to the midterm elections, in late 2019 to his impeachment inquiry, and in late 2020 to the presidential election. The Post reported 30,573 false or misleading claims in 4 years, an average of more than 20.9 per day.
Trump talks to the press in the Oval Office on March 21, 2017, before signing S.422 (the NASA Transition Authorization Act)
Trump speaks to reporters on the White House South Lawn in June 2019
During a joint news conference, Trump said he was "very proud" to hear Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro use the term "fake news."
Twitter activity of Donald Trump from his first tweet in May 2009 to September 2017. Retweets are not included.
Trump signed new anti-sex-trafficking legislation on April 16, 2018.
Trump pays tribute to fallen police officers on May 15, 2017
Trump signs the Hurricane Harvey relief bill at Camp David, September8, 2017
Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at the 787-10 Dreamliner rollout ceremony
Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2018
Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew's Catholic School in Orlando, Florida, March3, 2017
April 2017 Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Official portrait of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator
HHS Secretary Alex Azar
The CBO estimated in May 2017 that the Republican AHCA would reduce the number of people with health insurance by 23 million during 2026, relative to current law.
Drug overdoses killed 70,200 in the United States in 2017.
Trump at the 15th Annual Opioid Takeback Day
Trump receives a briefing on COVID-19 in the White House Situation Room
Trump was hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following his COVID-19 diagnosis on October 3, 2020.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, first day on the job
Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
June 2018 protest against the Trump administration family separation policy, in Chicago, Illinois
Trump signs Executive Order 13769 at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis look on, January 27, 2017.
Trump returns to the White House after posing for a photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church, June 2020
Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and President Donald Trump watch the Crew Dragon Demo-2 Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center
Anti-Trump protest in Greensboro by the anti-fascist groups Democratic Socialists of America and Industrial Workers of the World
Trump and North Korea's Communist Party leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, June 30, 2019
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the welcoming ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley (left) on September 30, 2019. Outgoing chairman General Joseph Dunford (right) and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (center-right) are present.
Trump with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office, November 13, 2019
Trump with Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017
Robert Mueller in the Oval Office c. 2012
Tayyip Erdoğan, then the prime minister of Turkey, attended the opening of the Trump Towers Istanbul AVM in 2012.
Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019
Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump signs an Executive Order promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America on April 25, 2017
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Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rival Joe Biden, triggering his first impeachment by the House of Representatives on December 18, 2019, but he was acquitted by the Senate on February 5, 2020.

Official portrait, 2021

Joe Biden

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American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States.

American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States.

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Biden at Archmere Academy in the 1950s
Biden in the Syracuse 1968 yearbook
Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware
Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977
Biden with President Jimmy Carter, 1979
Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984
Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994
Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997
Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.
Biden at the White House in 1987
Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007
Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois
Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009
President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.
Biden during a visit to Baghdad
Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden
Biden and Obama, July 2012
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Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016
Biden with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on November 10, 2016
Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017
Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019
Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021
Biden with his Cabinet, July 2021
Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021
Biden in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021
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Biden, UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021
Biden with Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Oval Office
Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, March 2022
President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012
President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017
Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020
Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022.

The media widely interpreted this pressure to investigate the Bidens as trying to hurt Biden's chances of winning the presidency, resulting in a political scandal and Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives.

Giuliani in 2019

Rudy Giuliani

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American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.

American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.

Giuliani in 2019
Giuliani in 2019
Giuliani greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1984
Rudy Giuliani with President Bill Clinton in 1993
National, New York City, and other major city crime rates (1990–2002).
Giuliani campaigned for Senate in 2000 before withdrawing after being diagnosed with cancer
Donald Rumsfeld and Giuliani at the site of the World Trade Center on November 14, 2001
Giuliani at a NYFPC briefing after 9/11
Giuliani, on right, at a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, in which President Bush praised his efforts as mayor and named Tom Ridge to a new cabinet-level position to oversee homeland defense initiatives
Thomas Von Essen and Giuliani at the New York Foreign Press Center Briefing on "New York City After September 11, 2001"
Giuliani and Secretary of State Colin Powell at the U.S. Delegation to OSCE's Anti-Semitism Meeting in Vienna, Austria, in 2003
Giuliani and President George W. Bush in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on August 26, 2004
Giuliani cutting the ribbon of the new Drug Enforcement Administration mobile museum in Dallas, Texas, in September 2003
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Giuliani at a rally at San Diego State University in August 2007 when polls showed him as the front-runner for the Republican party's nomination
Giuliani at a campaign event in Derry, New Hampshire, the day before the New Hampshire primary
Giuliani gives the keynote speech at the Jumeriah Essex House in honor of the USS New York sailors and Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 26 Marines on November 8, 2009
Giuliani speaking at a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on August 31, 2016
Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, James T. Conway, Bill Richardson and other American politicians at the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) event in 2018
President Donald Trump recognizes Giuliani prior to signing H.R. 1327; an act to permanently authorize the September11 Victim Compensation Fund, on July 29, 2019
Giuliani with Jenna Ellis in November 2020
Serbian president Tomislav Nikolić and Giuliani at a joint press conference, 2012
Congressman Vito Fossella, First Lady Nancy Reagan, and Giuliani, 2002
A New York Air National Guard major poses with Rudy and Judith Giuliani at Yankee Stadium in April 2009

In late 2019, Giuliani was reportedly under federal investigation for violating lobbying laws, and possibly several other charges, as a central figure in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, which resulted in Trump's first impeachment.