Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff began the fight of her political life Thursday.
It took Brazil’s Senate around 20 hours of debate to decide early Thursday the country’s first female president must step aside while the trial gets underway.
It took Rousseff less than an hour to make two speeches slamming the vote: one to reporters inside the presidential palace and one to crowds outside after she was kicked out.
"I'm the victim of a great injustice," Rousseff told cheering supporters.
She argued the effort is the latest in a string of moves by her opponents ever since she took office.
Rousseff vowed to keep fighting impeachment efforts and called for supporters to join her.
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