Majority of U.S. House votes to impeach Trump

A majority of the US House of Representatives voted to make Donald Trump the first US president ever to be impeached twice, formally charging him with inciting an insurrection in a vote held a week after a violent mob of his supporters besieged the Capitol.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a quick Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump but did not rule out that he might eventually vote to convict Trump.

A spokesman for McConnell, R-Ky., said McConnell had informed Democrats that he would block an effort by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to quickly call the chamber back into emergency session to put Trump on trial.

In a letter to his GOP colleagues, McConnell acknowledged he had not made up his mind about whether Trump should be convicted of the House’s charge that he incited insurrection by exhorting supporters who violently attacked the Capitol last week, resulting in five deaths and a disruption of Congress.

“I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate,” McConnell wrote.