The U.S. House of Representatives have impeached PresidentDonald Trump for alleged abuse of power and impediment of Congress. With this,Trump has become the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, afterAndrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999. Trump, a Republican President, has denied the chargesapproved on December 13th by the Judicial Committee of the House, which iscontrolled by the opposition Democratic Party. The impeachment in the US context means indictment, not removal,and it is undertaken by the lower legislative chamber. A President can only be removed from office on conviction bythe Senate, acting on the impeachment, for `treason, bribery or other acts ofgross misconduct. The struggle will now move to the Senate, where a two-thirdsvote is required to impeach the President, something that has never happened inthe country. In same vein, the White House has hit back at lawmakersafter President Donald Trump was impeached, slamming the illegitimate articlesof impeachment and voicing confidence that the president would be acquitted inthe Senate. The White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said, in astatement, that the Democrats have chosen to proceed on this partisan basis inspite of the fact that the President did absolutely nothing wrong, calling thevotes in the House of Representatives an “unconstitutional travesty”.