NHS Students React to Trump's Impeachment Process

President Donald Trump has gone through the Impeachment process and now it has finally come to an end. Trump got impeached on December 18, 2019, by the House of Representatives. Here at NHS, students have very strong opinions about President Trump’s impeachment.   

He was charged with two articles of impeachment, the first article of impeachment was the abuse of power and the second article of impeachment was obstruction of Congress. President Trump was acquitted on February 5th, 2020 and he dropped all charges. 

According to The New York Times, President Trump was charged with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The President had a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This all happened by having a rough draft of the call he made and it had all the evidence of what Trump did wrong. President Trump wanted President Zelensky to do a deep search on the former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. President Trump was also charged with obstruction of Congress because he refused to go along with the congressional inquiry. 

Many students have either no opinion about the impeachment or they have very strong opinions about the impeachment. 

Senior Justin Báez said, “I consider myself a Democrat, but I am not against Trump because the economy in the country is really good now. I feel like the way they impeach him wasn't the right way to do it but I am against the way he has responded to people's comments on Twitter and if he wants to be a good President and stay in office then he should rephrase the way he speaks. But other than that I think he is doing fine and I am not against him.” 

On the other hand, freshman Emily Fehm believes in President Trump’s guilt. She says, “I wish Trump got removed from office because obstruction of justice and abuse of power are quite the charges and I think he should be guilty.” 

Rachel O’Neil a freshman, similarly says, “I hope he doesn't harm the country even more than he already did and he doesn't have that much time left in office, if he gets elected then he probably will. I think there was obvious evidence and if there was any other person as President, especially a woman then they would already be kicked and just because it is him he is getting an exception.” 

Senior Joseph Stenstrom says, “I don’t think it should count because they denied all witnesses so it is not a trial it is a matter of hearsay.”

President Trump has a very strong opinion about specifically what happened to him during the impeachment process. According to The Washington Post, he states that the Democrats are cruel and vicious because of what they put him through. 

He also said that he shouldn't have been put through this in the first place because he believes he did nothing wrong while he was on the phone with the President of Ukraine. After Trump was acquitted from all charges he thanked his family for staying by his side the whole time.

Overall the impeachment process took a long time to gather all the information while also having a Senate trial and a House of Representatives trial. The results are final. President Donald Trump was impeached but he still remains in office due to not enough votes in the Senate to convict him guilty.