You cry, you cry next time.

It's your credit explained.

It's Wednesday, February 5.

That's about six months since the phone call between President Donald Trump

and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that sparked a whistleblower complaint

five months since the House opened an impeachment inquiry

and nearly two weeks since the Senate started its trial.

And today, we got a verdict.

The presiding officer directs judgment to be entered in accordance with the

judgment of the Senate as follows.

The Senate having tried Donald Trump, President of the United States,

upon two articles of impeachment, exhibited against him by the House of Representatives,

and two-thirds of the Senators present not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein.

It is therefore ordered and a judge that the said Donald John Trump be, and he is hereby.

Acquitted of the charges in said articles.

The president was impeached, then acquitted, and not convicted.

Andrew Prokop has been covering this from the jump for Vox, and he saw this acquittal coming from

the jump too. In the end, things came down to the fact that about 90 percent of Republican

voters still opposed removing him from office, and Republican Senators were just

never going to do that if their primary voters felt that way.

And do you think that's what this was? This was Republican Senators reacting to how their

constituents at home felt about impeachment broadly?

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