WASHINGTON – His place in the history books rewritten, President Donald Trump endured his second impeachment largely alone and silent.For more than four years, Trump has dominated the national discourse like no one before him.
Yet when his legacy was set in stone on Wednesday, he was stunningly left on the sidelines.Trump now stands with no equal, the only president to be charged twice with a high crime or misdemeanor, a new coda for a term defined by a deepening of the nation's divides, his failures during the worst pandemic in a century and his refusal to accept defeat at the ballot box.Trump kept out of sight in a nearly empty White House as impeachment proceedings played out at the heavily fortified U.S.