The Senate has voted to acquit the former president in a 57-43 vote.

Seven Republicans senators -- Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania -- joined Democrats to vote Trump guilty of "incitement of insurrection" -- but they failed to reach the super majority threshold needed for a conviction.

The Senate chamber fell silent as each senator's name was called for the roll call vote.

As required by Senate rules, each senator present had to pronounce Trump "guilty" or "not guilty" while they stood behind their individual desks.

Romney was the only Republican to vote to convict Trump at his last impeachment trial -- in which Trump was also acquitted.

The Senate was ten votes shy of conviction this time around.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., briefly rebutted Trump attorney Michael van der Veen's closing remarks, pointing out that he referred to the Jan. 6 riot as an "insurrection" after Trump attorney Bruce Castor told the Senate "there was no insurrection."

"I would certainly love to see President Trump also call it a violent insurrection and denounce it too," Raskin said.

The last argument, he said, was "pathetically weak."

"It is, was about the First Amendment ... tell me, when has his speech ever been stifled?" Raskin asked.

Raskin also couldn't resist taking several sarcastic jabs at the closing argument from van der Veen.

"The First Amendment is on our side," Raskin said, as he accused Trump of acting "no better" than a rioter on Jan. 6.

"We are defending the Bill of Rights. We are defending the constitutional structure. We are defending the separation of powers. We're defending the U.S. Senate," he declared.

"In many ways, he was worse," Raskin said of Trump. "He named the date, he named the time, and he brought them here, and now he must pay the price."

The Senate is voting on whether to find Trump guilty of "incitement of insurrection."

The clerk has read the article of impeachment in full ahead of the vote.

Leading closing arguments for the Trump defense team, attorney Michael van der Veen continued to equate Trump's speech ahead of the deadly riot at the Capitol to comments Democrats have made to supporters to "fight."

Van der Veen said protests over the summer in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in police custody celebrated "radicalism" and added that those protests allowed "marginalized people" "to blow off steam."

He condemned all rioting and said law enforcement deserves respect and support -- a view Trump has always held, van der Veen pushed.

Van der Veen then pivoted to the argument that the trial in itself is unconstitutional and unfair. However, the Senate voted on Tuesday 55-45 to affirm its power that Trump trial is Constitutional.

"For the first time in history, Congress has asserted the right to try and punish a former president who is a private citizen," van der Veen said. "Nowhere in the Constitution is the power enumerated or implied. Congress has no authority, no right, and no business holding a trial of citizen Trump, let alone a trial to deprive him of some fundamental civil rights."

After the Senate decided it will not call any witnesses, lead House manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., was the first to speak during closing arguments. He reiterated the prosecution's case, calling for the conviction of Trump.

"It was suggested by defense counsel that Donald Trump's conduct during the attack, as described in Congresswoman Beutler's statement, is somehow not part of the Constitutional offense for which former President Trump has been charged," Raskin began. "I want to reject that falsehood and that fallacy immediately. After he knew that violence was underway at the Capitol, President Trump took actions that further incited the insurgents to be more inflamed and to take even more extreme, selective, and focused action against Vice President Mike Pence."

Raskin went on to use his time to describe Trump's months-long campaign to discredit the 2020 election results by spreading misinformation, which he argued laid the groundwork for deadly events of Jan. 6. He went on to claim that the former president assembled the mob, incited it and then sent it off to the Capitol during his speech. At every point, Trump sided with the insurrectionists rather than the Congress, Raskin said.

Once when the violence began, Raskin declared that Trump ignored the violence and further incited it by aiming the attacks on his own vice president.

"There has never been a greater betrayal by the president of the United States of his office, and of his oath to the Constitution."

Raskin then took a moment to suggest the GOP used "cancel culture" against one of its leaders, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who voted to impeach Trump in the House.

"Liz Cheney is a hero for standing up for the truth, and resisting this retaliatory cancel culture that she was subjected to."

Raskin emphasized his gratitude toward the Capitol Police, and finished his argument by saying convicting Trump is a vote for the "security of our democracy."

"They attacked this building, they disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, they injured and killed people, convinced that they were acting on his instructions, and with his approval, and protection," Raskin finished. "And while that happened, he further incited them, while failing to defend us. If that's not ground for conviction, if that's not a high crime and misdemeanor against the republic in the United States of America then nothing is. President Trump must be convicted for the safety and security of our democracy and our people."