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The only precedent for the second [[impeachment]] of [[President Donald J. Trump]] was that of William W. Belknap, President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]’s Secretary of War during [[Reconstruction]], who was tried and acquitted by the [[U.S. Senate]] after he resigned from office. An investigation into the War Department was launched. Under Belknap the [[U.S. Army]] was used in combination with the [[Justice Department]] to prosecute the [[Ku Klux Klan]], a policy opposed by most [[Democrat]]s.<ref>https://brewminate.com/the-life-of-william-w-belknap-impeached-post-resignation-in-1876/</ref>
The only precedent for the second [[impeachment]] of [[President Donald J. Trump]] was that of William W. Belknap, President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]’s Secretary of War during [[Reconstruction]], who was tried and acquitted by the [[U.S. Senate]] after resigning from office. An investigation into the War Department was launched. Under Belknap the [[U.S. Army]] was used in combination with the [[Justice Department]] to prosecute the [[Ku Klux Klan]], a policy opposed by most [[Democrat]]s.<ref>https://brewminate.com/the-life-of-william-w-belknap-impeached-post-resignation-in-1876/</ref>
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