Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, almost a year after his first.
Widely believed to be the worst American President in recent history, Donald Trump, by this trial, becomes the first President to be impeached twice while in office and the first to be tried outside office.
He earned his current travail by inciting an insurrection against his own government when he galvanised a huge crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell”.That was on January 6, 2021.
The mob obeyed Trump and overran the Capitol while former Vice President Pence was presiding over the validation of the electoral votes, a prelude to President Joe Biden’s inauguartion on January 20, 2021.
Five people, including a police officer, were killed during the Trump’s mob attack on the Capitol.
However, despite the weight of evidence against Trump, and the enormous damage he did to America’s democracy and reputation in the world through his endless lies and erratic behaviours, members of his Republican party are mostly standing by him.
How far that support would sustain the former president would unfurl as the impeachment trial starts Tuesday.
