Trump celebrates acquittal in Senate trial, foreshadows political future: 'Much to share'

[Crazy Pelosi would be fired in the private sector]

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday thanked his lawyers
and senators who voted against his impeachment conviction and
foreshadowed his political future in a statement following the
57-43 Senate vote to acquit him of inciting an insurrection.

"I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others
for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth,"
Trump said. "My deepest thanks as well to all of the United
States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for
the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal
principles at the heart of our country."

He added: "This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch
hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone
through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents
cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number
ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short
months ago."

Trump did not make any statements during the impeachment trial,
and his statement Saturday is his first all week.

The vote Saturday was significantly more votes than the 48-52
vote in his 2020 Senate trial but still 10 short of what would
have been needed to convict. The trial this week was the
shortest presidential impeachment trial ever.

Trump also foreshadowed his political future.

"Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America
Great Again has only just begun," he said. "In the months ahead
I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing
our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness
for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!"

Trump's second impeachment was spurred by the Jan. 6 riot at the
U.S. Capitol. Trump, after months of making false claims that
he'd won the presidential election, called a rally in
Washington, D.C., with his supporters for the same day Congress
and then-Vice President Mike Pence were meeting in a joint
session to certify the results of the election.

Trump, at the rally, repeated his false election claims and he
and advisers used pitched rhetoric, riling up the large crowd.
Trump at one point in the rally told his followers to
"peacefully and patriotically" march to the Capitol, a comment
his defenders point to as part of the reason why he does not
bear responsibility for the ransacking of the Capitol.

But House impeachment managers argued that one comment did not
cancel out the balance of Trump's other comments in that speech
or in the proceeding months. They said he bore fundamental
responsibility for the mob that breached the Capitol and forced
hundreds of lawmakers and the former vice president into hiding
while chanting "hang Mike Pence," among other things.

Fox News' Peter Doocy contributed to this report.

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