Trump impeachment: Small Delaware group joins national protest of president's acquittal

About 60 people held a rally along Concord Pike in Talleyville Wednesday night protesting the acquittal of President Donald Trump on impeachment charges earlier in the day.

"It's a cover-up," said Lucy Comstock-Gay, with Indivisible Highlands & Beyond, which describes itself as a progressive movement to resist Donald Trump's agenda. "The past three years have proved we need to stand for our country."

The protest was organized by a local branch of Indivisible and Common Cause Delaware. There were more than 150 similar protests across the country Wednesday.

The demonstrations were originally planned to protest Republican senators voting to block key witnesses from testifying in Donald Trump's impeachment trial. But Trump was been acquitted just hours before they gathered.

David Scott found out about the protest just an hour before it started and hustled over to it. He thinks it's a shame Republicans knew what the president did, but still voted to acquit him in the bipartisan vote.

GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah was the only Republican to join Senate Democrats in voting to convict Trump of abuse of power, but they fell short of the two-thirds majority required to remove Trump. Democrats failed to even get a majority.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a statement saying the Senate vote to acquit Trump “normalized lawlessness and rejected the system of checks and balances in our Constitution.”

Jennifer Hill of Common Cause Delaware said people just want a fair trial.

In 2018, Indivisible Highlands & Beyond gathered in the same area to protest Trump's immigration policy.

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