周三，众议院以232票对197票，10名共和党人和所有民主党人投票弹劾唐纳德·特朗普总统指控总统上周煽动支持者袭击美国国会大厦，导致五人死亡的暴乱。

前所未有的投票，就在他第一次投票一年后弹劾-让特朗普成为美国历史上第一位总统被国会弹劾两次。这也是美国历史上最大的两党弹劾投票。

在上周叛乱后，在被数千名国民警卫队队员包围的空荡荡的国会大厦里，经过数小时的辩论和几层新的安全措施，民主党人认为，特朗普对国家构成了足够的危险，他在任期仅剩7天的情况下，应该受到国会的弹劾。

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众议院弹劾投票的最终投票取决于众议院电视录像

“美国总统煽动了这场针对我们共同国家的起义，这场武装叛乱。他必须离开，”众议院议长南希·佩洛西在众议院说。"他对我们热爱的国家是一个明显的、现实的威胁。"

这10名共和党人投票弹劾特朗普的有:众议院议员莉兹·切尼(Liz Cheney)、共和党众议院第三号领袖罗-怀奥(R-Wyo)、共和党众议员安东尼·冈萨雷斯(Anthony Gonzalez)、俄亥俄州众议员杰米·埃雷拉·比勒(Jamie Herrera Beutler)和华盛顿州众议员。共和党众议员约翰·卡特科(John Katko)，共和党众议员亚当·金辛格(Adam Kinzinger)，共和党众议员伊利诺伊州。密歇根州共和党众议员彼得·梅耶尔、华盛顿州共和党众议员丹·纽豪斯。共和党众议员汤姆·赖斯、密歇根州众议员弗雷德·厄普顿和加利福尼亚州众议员大卫·瓦拉多

在那群人中，只有埃雷拉·比尤特勒和纽豪斯在众议院发言支持弹劾。

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众议员丹·纽豪斯在美国国会大厦发表演讲，而民主党人正在辩论一项弹劾条款

“我不怕失去工作，”这位国会女议员说。“但我担心我的国家会失败。”

周三发言的共和党人很少为特朗普对后来聚集在国会大厦的示威者的支持言论或他对迫使国会议员封锁的骚乱的延迟反应进行辩护。

相反，总统的一些最亲密的盟友指责民主党人试图在这场悲剧中获得政治分数，并警告他们，在乔·拜登就职之前不太可能开始的弹劾审判将进一步加剧该国的紧张局势。

“他们想取消总统，”俄亥俄州共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹在地板上说。

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众议员吉姆·乔丹在美国众议院弹劾辩论中双臂交叉站立

其他人指责民主党人虚伪，将国会大厦的暴乱与今年夏天乔治·弗洛伊德(George Floyd)去世后社会正义抗议浪潮中零星的暴力事件进行了比较，弗洛伊德死于明尼阿波利斯的警方拘留中。

加州众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡谴责了特朗普的行为，并表示他对上周的袭击“负有责任”。

“弹劾投票将进一步分裂国家，”他补充说。

麦卡锡还呼吁特朗普“接受他的那份责任”。

在投票后不久发布的一段视频中，总统谴责了对国会大厦的暴力袭击，并呼吁结束进一步的暴力，但没有提到弹劾投票或他在煽动暴乱中可能发挥的任何作用。

众议院去年弹劾了特朗普，因为他打电话给乌克兰总统，鼓励努力挖掘当时候选人拜登的丑闻。没有众议院共和党人支持这一努力，只有一名共和党参议员与民主党人一起投票定罪。

民主党需要17名共和党参议员的支持才能给特朗普定罪，并获得多数票，禁止他再次担任联邦职务。

参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔。在周一给共和党参议员的一封信中说，在收到众议院的文章后，这个过程将在“我们的第一次例会”开始。该院定于1月19日开庭，将于拜登1月20日就职后开始他的任期。

周三下午，麦康奈尔给共和党同事发了一封短信，称他尚未就如何在弹劾审判中投票做出最终决定。

“我打算在法律辩论提交给参议院时听取它们，”他写道。

Trump makes history as 1st president to be impeached a 2nd time

The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, 232-197, with 10 Republicans voting with all Democratsto charge the presidentwith inciting supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol last week, a riot that left five people dead.

The unprecedented vote, just over a year after his firstimpeachment-- made Trump the first president in U.S. history to beimpeached by Congress twice. It was also the largest bipartisan impeachment vote in American history.

Over hours of debate in an empty Capitol surrounded by thousands of National Guardsmen and several new layers of security measures after last week's insurrection, Democrats argued that Trump presented enough danger to the country that he merited impeachment from Congress with just seven days left in his term.

"The president of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion, against our common country. He must go," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on the House floor. "He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love."

The10 Republicanswho voted to impeach Trump were: Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. -- the No. 3 Republican in House leadership -- Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, Rep, Jamie Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C., Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif.

Of that group, just Herrera Beutler and Newhouse spoke on the House floor in support of impeachment.

"I'm not afraid of losing my job," the congresswoman said. "But I am afraid my country will fail."

Few Republicans who spoke on Wednesday defended Trump's supportive comments to demonstrators who later converged on the Capitol or his delayed response to the riot that forced members of Congress into lockdown.

Instead, some of the president's closest allies accused Democrats of trying to score political points over the tragedy and warned them that triggering an impeachment trial that is unlikely to begin until after Joe Biden's inauguration will further inflame tensions in the country.

"They want to cancel the president," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on the floor.

Others accused Democrats of hypocrisy by comparing the riot at the Capitol to scattered episodes of violence this summer during the wave of social justice protests after the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., condemned Trump's actions and said he "bears responsibility" for the attack last week.

"A vote to impeach will further divide the nation," he added.

McCarthy also called on Trump to "accept his share of the responsibility."

In a video released shortly after the vote, the president condemned the violent attack on the Capitol and called for an end to further violence, but made no mention of the impeachment vote or any role he may have played in inciting the riot.

The House impeached Trump last year for his phone call to Ukraine's president encouraging efforts to dig up dirt on then-candidate Biden. No House Republicans backed that effort and just one GOP senator voted with Democrats to convict.

Democrats will need the support of 17 GOP senators to convict Trump, and get a majority vote that would bar him from holding federal office again.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a letter to GOP senators on Monday, said the process would begin "at our first regular meeting" after receiving articles from the House. The chamber is scheduled to return on Jan. 19 -- setting up a trial that would begin as Biden begins his term following his Jan. 20 inauguration.

McConnell sent a note to his Republican colleagues Wednesday afternoon stating that he had not made a final decision on how he would vote in an impeachment trial.

"I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate," he wrote.