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   From: fuck-obama-too@nytimes.com   
      
   Former President Donald Trump on Saturday thanked his lawyers   
   and senators who voted against his impeachment conviction and   
   foreshadowed his political future in a statement following the   
   57-43 Senate vote to acquit him of inciting an insurrection.   
      
   "I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others   
   for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth,"   
   Trump said. "My deepest thanks as well to all of the United   
   States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for   
   the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal   
   principles at the heart of our country."   
      
   He added: "This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch   
   hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone   
   through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents   
   cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number   
   ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short   
   months ago."   
      
   Trump did not make any statements during the impeachment trial,   
   and his statement Saturday is his first all week.   
      
   The vote Saturday was significantly more votes than the 48-52   
   vote in his 2020 Senate trial but still 10 short of what would   
   have been needed to convict. The trial this week was the   
   shortest presidential impeachment trial ever.   
      
   Trump also foreshadowed his political future.   
      
   "Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America   
   Great Again has only just begun," he said. "In the months ahead   
   I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing   
   our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness   
   for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!"   
      
   Trump's second impeachment was spurred by the Jan. 6 riot at the   
   U.S. Capitol. Trump, after months of making false claims that   
   he'd won the presidential election, called a rally in   
   Washington, D.C., with his supporters for the same day Congress   
   and then-Vice President Mike Pence were meeting in a joint   
   session to certify the results of the election.   
      
   Trump, at the rally, repeated his false election claims and he   
   and advisers used pitched rhetoric, riling up the large crowd.   
   Trump at one point in the rally told his followers to   
   "peacefully and patriotically" march to the Capitol, a comment   
   his defenders point to as part of the reason why he does not   
   bear responsibility for the ransacking of the Capitol.   
      
   But House impeachment managers argued that one comment did not   
   cancel out the balance of Trump's other comments in that speech   
   or in the proceeding months. They said he bore fundamental   
   responsibility for the mob that breached the Capitol and forced   
   hundreds of lawmakers and the former vice president into hiding   
   while chanting "hang Mike Pence," among other things.   
      
   Fox News' Peter Doocy contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-statement-impeachment-   
   acquittal   
        
      
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