Speaker Nancy Pelosi: It’s a “great day for the Constitution” but “a sad day for America.”

For just the third time in America’s history a president of the United States has been impeached. Even as a conservative Democrat I would have to voted for the impeachment of Donald Trump.

The two charges against the president are abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. I would have included a charge of obstruction of justice to the charges against him. Despite an invitation to participate in the House impeachment investigation the president refused to provide any pertinent documents and blocked all of his administration personnel from appearing before the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.

Just in case any Americans did not know his defense, Trump wrote in a letter to speaker Nancy Pelosi saying “This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.” That letter tells me the president has not read the constitution. Or perhaps he has but chooses to ignore the constitution.

This impeachment is a fact but now comes the politics of a trial in the senate. The Democrats will be doing every trick they can to have Trump removed from office. At the very least the impeachment will hang over Donald Trump forever.