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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 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>  Senate Democrat Majority leader [[Chuck Schumer]] said, “The Senate convened a trial, and voted, as a chamber, that Mr. Belknap could be tried ‘for acts done as Secretary of War, notwithstanding his resignation of said office.’ The language is crystal clear, without any ambiguity,” quoting a resolution by Senator [[Allen G. Thurman]], who opposed President [[Abraham Lincoln]]’s [[Emancipation Proclamation]] and campaigned against allowing black people to vote.<ref>[https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/sultan-knish/the-racist-origins-of-president-trumps-impeachment/2021/02/22/ The Racist Origins of President Trump’s Impeachment], By Daniel Greenfield - 10 Adar 5781 – February 22, 2021. www.jewishpress.com</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>  Senate Democrat Majority leader [[Chuck Schumer]] said, “The Senate convened a trial, and voted, as a chamber, that Mr. Belknap could be tried ‘for acts done as Secretary of War, notwithstanding his resignation of said office.’ The language is crystal clear, without any ambiguity,” quoting a resolution by Senator [[Allen G. Thurman]], who opposed President [[Abraham Lincoln]]’s [[Emancipation Proclamation]] and campaigned against allowing black people to vote.<ref>[https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/sultan-knish/the-racist-origins-of-president-trumps-impeachment/2021/02/22/ The Racist Origins of President Trump’s Impeachment], By [[Daniel Greenfield]] - 10 Adar 5781 – February 22, 2021. www.jewishpress.com</ref>

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