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President Trump has been impeached.

Or if I were to evoke the manner of the newsman

for the third time in US history, a president has been impeached by the House of Representatives.

Last night, Chris Cuomo on CNN emphasized the solemnity of the moment.

President Trump will bear the stain of being impeached only the second in modern history.

Tonight, you will hear some of the solemn stentorianism,

but also a lot of the stentorian solemnity.

Donald J. Trump has gone down as the third president ever to be impeached in US history.

The thing is, if you're older than 25, you remember the second time a US president was impeached.

And it was kind of bullshit.

And while this one is for much worse actions, I don't think the tone around the last impeachment

was one of heavy, heavy history.

I just think that it was a horrible thing to happen in terms of distraction and why are they doing this.

But it doesn't seem to be market down in history books for the act that he was impeached over

as much as it was market down in history books for I can't believe the Republicans are doing this.

Either way, it was in the past and therefore historical.

And it is also true that for the third time in history, it's unlikely that an impeachment will remove a president.

I mean, the one time we removed a president, it was only because of the threat of impeachment.

Impeachment's going to go forward and the result will be, well, it's unclear.

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