One week after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump became the first president to be impeached twice after the House voted 232-197 on Wednesday to charge him with “incitement of insurrection.”
Trump’s second impeachment was the most bipartisan impeachment vote in U.S. history. Ten Republicans voted to impeach, including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the House Republican Conference Chair, who said in a statement, “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
Here’s how newspaper front pages on Thursday, January 14 covered the news:
Southern California News Group-owned newspapers (above) used the headline “Impeached Again” and a screenshot from a video Trump recorded in which he condemned the violence but did not admit to lying about the election.
By far, the most used photo on front pages was a photo of Trump at the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday where he talked about the wall he never built. The photo was taken by Delcia Lopez, a photographer for the Monitor in McAllen, Texas, and it ran on USA Today network newspapers across the country.
In Connecticut, Hearst Communications-owned newspapers went with a photo of Trump stepping off Air Force One in Texas, and the headline “Impeached Again.”
The second-most popular front page photo was a photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi with her gavel in hand after the House voted to impeach, by Getty photographer Chip Somodevilla. Fun fact: Pelosi wore the same skirt suit and necklace on Wednesday that she did at Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.
Several Gannett Company-owned newspapers in Wisconsin used a photo of Pelosi walking through the Capitol by AP photographer J. Scott Applewhite.
A handful of newspapers used photos of National Guard troops who occupied and slept over in the Capitol on Tuesday night before the vote. About 20,000 National Guard members are expected to be in D.C. for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, January 20.
A few other front pages that stood out: The New York Times also used a photo of National Guard troops, but around a bust of George Washington in the Capitol by photographer Erin Schaff. It’s the same bust the pro-Trump mob marched around last week. The Arizona Republic went with the big, bold one-word headline “AGAIN,” and the Patriot News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, put the dates of Trump’s first and second impeachments above the fold.
The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pennsylvania, put text from the impeachment document on its front page, and USA Today had the headline “Impeached. Twice.,” plus a breakdown of House votes for each of Trump’s impeachments.