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TIME

Where Trump's Acquittal Fits Into the History of Impeachment, According to Historians

Like most things related to the Trump presidency, his impeachment trial reflected a number of unprecedented features. Among the most worrisome was the Trump team’s argument that “if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” Combined with the assertion that only a criminal violation is impeachable, the result would seem to be that whatever noncriminal action a President defines as beneficial to his election, and therefore automatically in the public interest, is allowable.
Barbara Perry
The Christian Science Monitor

Will impeachment change Trump? A Washington guessing game.

One big difference between the Clinton and Trump impeachments is that Mr. Clinton’s took place toward the end of his presidency, and Mr. Trump’s is taking place amid a reelection bid. But there’s also a big difference in their respective postures. With Mr. Clinton, “there was this general sense that he was chastened and remorseful,” says Russell Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “With Trump, there’s none of that. So there’s an enormous amount of anxiety about what he might do as president from this point forward, because he’s effectively a president unbound.”
Russell Riley
Globe and Mail

Senate votes to acquit Trump of impeachment charges

Presidential scholar Barbara Ann Perry argued that Mr. Trump’s defence threatened to set a dangerous precedent for presidential authority. Among other things, the President’s lawyers argued that abuse of power is not an impeachable offence and that Mr. Trump was justified in taking any actions to help his re-election because he believed his victory was in the national interest. “This raising of the bar on what is impeachable is frightening to me,” said Prof. Perry, director of presidential studies at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. “That leads to authoritarianism.”
Barbara Perry
Axios

Senate acquits Trump

"This opens the door for not only President Trump but future presidents to use the vast powers of the federal government against political targets," said Ken Hughes, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
Ken Hughes