The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the first president in history to have been impeached twice. The nation has only taken this action against its president four times, and Trump now accounts for half of those occasions. The others were Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.

In a vote of 232 to 197, the House approved an article of impeachment that accused Trump of inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government by falsely claiming widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election and urging his supporters to stop Congress from certifying the results of the election. Ten Republican lawmakers joined House Democrats in voting for the measure. After the