A National Guardsmen pushes a comrade in a chair in the U.S. Capitol as Democrats begin debating an article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The second impeachment of President Donald Trump by the U.S. House of Representatives, for inciting last week's deadly rampage at the Capitol, could set off a bitter Senate fight that entangles the early days of President-elect Joe Biden's term.
Trump, whose turbulent four-year term in office is due to end next Wednesday, became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice when the Democratic-led House voted 232-197 on Wednesday to charge him with inciting an insurrection. Ten of Trump's fellow Republicans joined Democrats in approving the single article of impeachment.
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