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Good Thursday morning. For the second time, in just over a year, it is the morning after impeachment day.

I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Today, in a bipartisan way, the House demonstrated that no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States.

Donald Trump is officially the first president in history to be impeached twice.

As Politico's Kyle Cheney writes, yesterday we saw the fourth impeachment in American history. And exactly

half of those were impeachments of Trump. That's one category he really might be tired of winning.

This time the effort was bipartisan. Ten House Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump

on a single charge, incitement of insurrection, the gravest charge ever lodged

against a sitting president. And in case you're itching for one more historic event to live through

right now, the action now shifts over to the Senate, where it's their turn to decide whether Trump

will make history again, one of two ways. Either by being the first president to actually get thrown out of

office with just five days left, or by being the first president to be convicted of impeachable

offenses after leaving the White House. Yesterday was, of course, a dark and historic day

capping off a very tense week. Exactly seven days after Trump told his supporters

he'll never concede the election and urge them to march to the Capitol to stop lawmakers

from certifying Joe Biden's election win. Today's playbook guest author, Conservative podcast host

Ben Shapiro, had this take. Republicans may divide over impeachment. There are good prudential

arguments against and good principled arguments in favor. But one thing over impeachment. There are good prudential arguments against

and good principled arguments in favor. But one thing is certain. If anyone expects Americans to come

together once the Trump era is over, that's a pipe dream. Our social fabric is torn. It was torn before

Trump. And as it turns out, the incentive structure of modern politics and media cuts directly

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