WASHINGTON, D.C.-Following a two-week trial that limited the calling of witnesses and the presentation of evidence along party lines, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday acquitted United States President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment leveled by the Democratically-dominated House.

The president was cleared by the Senate on charges he obstructed Congress and abused his powers in connection with allegedly threatening to withhold millions of dollars in foreign aid to Ukraine unless its officials agreed to dig up dirt on his political rivals.

Those rivals include former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic front runner for president, and his son Hunter Biden.

The vote was along party lines, 47-53 on the obstruction of Congress charge, and, 48-52, on the claim by House members that he abused his powers.

The verdict, its possible outcomes only acquittal and removal from office, comes just a day after the president delivered his third official State of the Union address to joint chambers of Congress and before millions of viewers across the world.

The president, a Republican seeking reelection this year to a second four-year term, has denied any wrong doing and the White House said in a statement on Wednesday that the acquittal is "full vindication and exoneration."

Democrats say he only escaped removal from office because of partisanship, the same stance the Republicans say Democrats took in their zeal to impeach him, an impeachment that did not culminate in removal from office following a trial in the Senate as the Democrats had hoped.

The president spoke for nearly 120 min. regarding his State of the Union,  a minute shy of his 2019 State of the Union address and almost one half hour longer than the one in 2018, which was 88 min.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat who was House Speaker from 2007-2011 and regained the position this year following the November 2018 midterm elections where the Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives, said the effort to remove the president from office was worthwhile and ripped into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who was in large part the impetus behind the president's acquittal as "a rogue leader."

The first and only woman to lead a majority party in Congress, Pelosi was seen allegedly tearing up her copy of the president's speech, and ironically while he was delivering it, the president upset with her too and visibly snubbing her when she sought to shake his hand before he spoke.

A handful of Democratic lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, walked out of the speech saying the Republican president is simply a liar and that they could not take anymore, his alleged lie of protecting preexisting conditions, they say, the tip of the iceberg as Democrats and Republicans continue to quarrel of the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislation of Trump's predecessor, former president Barack Obama, a Democrat and the nation's first Black president.

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