"Then you've just conceded that impeachment is the same as a trial."

No I haven't. A trial in the context that Bjorn was using under American law ends with or without a conviction. An impeachment of the president mearly removes him from office if the right amount of senaters decide they want him removed, whether guilty of anything or not. That is a fact. It cannot convict him of anything or set any kind of punishment.

Only a legal trial with a judge and jury can do that.

And if you believe the bs The Washington Post, CNN or Wiki writes as nothing but the truth, then you are an idiot.

At best, if you want to call the impeachment a trial andthe senate a a jury, then it ended in a hung jury (aka not enough votes to remove form office even though a majority voted to do so) - not acquittal.