'White supremacy won today': critics condemn Trump acquittal as racist vote [View all]
Analysts say whiteness protects its own after only seven Republicans vote to convict Trump of inciting deadly Capitol riot
Amanda Holpuch
@holpuch
Sun 14 Feb 2021 02.00 EST
The decision by 43 Republican senators to acquit Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial has been condemned by many observers as a racist vote which upholds white supremacy.
The former president was tried this week for his role in inciting the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol, where his many of his followers waved Confederate flags and wore racist and antisemitic clothing and symbols while storming the building.
In his speech before the riot, Trump exhorted his followers to fight the vote and called his mostly white audience the people that built this nation. His efforts to overturn the election results concentrated in cities with large populations of Black voters who drove Bidens win.
Kimberly Atkins, a senior opinion writer at the Boston Globe, tweeted that the mob was trying to stop the votes of Black people like her from being counted.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/14/trump-acquittal-white-supremacy-racist-vote