Special Edition: The Senate Votes to Acquit President Donald Trump
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, the Senate voted to acquit President Donald J. Trump of abuse of power, by a vote of 48-52, and obstruction of Congress, by a vote of 47-53. Over the course of the trial, Lawfare and Goat Rodeo have been compiling the most essential parts of each day’s proceeding into manageable podcast episodes. Here is the final episode of that series. It includes some remarks made by senators including Mitt Romney of Utah, who became the first person in history to vote to remove a president of his own party, followed by the vote. The episode ends with a conversation with Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic, David Priess and Margaret Taylor, hosted by Benjamin Wittes.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising. |
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| 0:11.2 | at patreon.com slash lawfair. |
| 0:14.8 | That's patreon.com slash lawfair. |
| 0:18.3 | Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, lawfair |
| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.9 | Hey podcast listeners, Ben Whittes here. |
| 0:33.1 | And the president has just been acquitted by the Senate and rather than do an emergency |
| 0:39.0 | podcast on the subject, we are dropping in to this feed, the final episode of the series |
| 0:46.8 | we've been running on the report feed called the impeachment, which Margaret Taylor has |
| 0:52.8 | been running for us. |
| 0:54.7 | If you haven't listened to that, you should go back and you can listen to the whole Senate |
| 1:00.9 | trial in a relatively brief set of episodes. |
| 1:05.6 | But this last episode contains a good conversation as well as some of the excerpts of some of |
| 1:13.2 | the major speeches. |
| 1:14.4 | And we thought that rather than have a second conversation, we would just make this available |
| 1:20.2 | as the emergency podcast. |
| 1:22.3 | So enjoy it and feel free to go back and listen to the report season one on the Mueller |
| 1:29.1 | report or season two on the impeachment. |
| 1:32.7 | Thanks. |
| 1:33.7 | It's February 5th, 2020. |
| 1:38.0 | It's the 13th and final day of the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump. |
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