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Trump is hellbent on erasing his impeachments

Trump is hellbent on erasing his impeachments

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Trump is hellbent on erasing his impeachments

by Emily Singer
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
APPresident Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on June 10.

President Donald Trump is reportedly trying to expunge his two impeachments—his latest attempt to rewrite history from his disastrous first term.

“It should be done because I did nothing wrong,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal. “It was a rigged deal—it was a whole rigged situation.”

Insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Ray Epps, an Arizona man who became the center of a conspiracy theory about Jan. 6, 2021, has been charged with a misdemeanor offense in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot, according to court papers filed Tuesday. Epps is charged with a single count of a disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds.
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Incited by President Donald Trump, insurrectionists storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

But forcing Republicans to pass a meaningless resolution just to soothe Dear Leader’s fragile ego would be politically disastrous for the GOP.

First, the majority of Americans want Trump to be impeached again—not see his first two impeachments erased. 

More than that, introducing an expungement resolution would reopen the debate on Trump’s corrupt and traitorous actions during his first term, reminding voters that Trump tried to extort Ukrainian leaders to help his 2020 reelection bid and incited the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Americans overwhelmingly agreed at the time that Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to make up dirt about former President Joe Biden were wrong. And a majority of voters not only believed that Trump should be impeached for inciting the insurrection but that Trump should have been convicted.

Reminding voters of Trump’s actions could only hurt his already abysmally low approval rating, which in turn would further hurt Republicans in the midterms.

What’s more, if House Republicans bend to Trump’s will on this meaningless effort, it will give Democrats even more ammunition in their argument that the GOP cares more about aiding Trump than helping the American people.

True to form, House Speaker Mike Johnson looks like he’s already caving to Trump.

Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaking at a Republican media availability. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Sipa USA via APFormer House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

“I think it makes a lot of sense the more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “We were saying it at the time, now we know. And they make a very compelling case that it should be expunged from the record, because it was a hyperpartisan attack job.”

Trump has been pushing this idiotic impeachment expungement since 2022, when sycophantic GOP lawmakers first pitched the idea.

In fact, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision not to bring an expungement resolution up for a vote—and thus breaking his promise—may have cost him the speakership. It certainly soured his relationship with Trump, who ultimately chose to stay out of the coup that ended McCarthy’s political career.

At the end of the day, Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice. Passing a resolution to expunge that record doesn’t erase the history books—it just puts Republicans in a bad position.

“Maybe they’ve given up on holding the majority?” GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s silly. What happened is history.”

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  1. Comment by NHsolarguy.

    Good luck trying to expunge Trumps impeachments.. As soon as Democrats take over, there will be multiple impeachments to follow. The corruption alone is enough for multiples charges, and I think that war crimes and/or murder/piracy on the high seas could qualify for another impeachment or two. Nepotism. Emoluments. Putting his evil spawn in the position of both making policy for countries and getting contracts from those countries for themselves. Kidnapping a head of state? Attacking Iran (twice) for no reason whatsoever? Giving material aid to Russia, and withholding funding for Ukraine. Canceling spending for world health and poverty programs that was previously budgeted by Congress. Probably can add Cuba to the list as a TBD...And then there are all the illegal spending and tariffs, illegal closings of government organizations, using Congressionally mandated funding for other purposes... in fact, it's a bad day for Trump if he hasn't committed at least one crime.

  2. Comment by dogyears.

    In your guts, you know he's nuts. No! In your guts, you know he's F'n nuts.

  3. Comment by PQuincy2014.

    Votes of the House, according to the Constitution, _must_ be recorded in the Journal of the House, which _must_ be published. A vote on a resolution to "expunge" the impeachments could be taken, could win, and would also be recorded. But it would be a direct violation of the plain words of the Constitution to delete the record of the two impeachment votes, which have already been published. End of story.

    [Waiting for a Trump lawyer to argue that the House can retroactively decide that the impeachments votes "may in their judgment require Secrecy", and could therefore be retroactively deleted...showing, among other things that they don't know what the word "publish" means.]

    Article I

    Section 5 Proceedings

    Clause 3 Records

    Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.

    • Reply by jakdedert.

      They'll try to make a case that it's a matter of 'Nationa...uh, I mean 'Homeland Security.'

  4. Comment by Carbon.

    Short of having a "Men in Black" neuralizer, how would that even be possible?

  5. Comment by PammyG.

    TRUMP SAID HE DID NOTHING WRONG... I want to know what kind of drugs he's on!!! Then he blames a lot of things on Biden... Biden wasn't even there!! Trump did all that crap!!! WHY HAS HE NOT GOTTEN IN ANY TROUBLE FOR ANY OF IT? HE HAS 34 FELONIES ON HIS ASS.... HE NEEDS TO BE IN PRISON NOW!!!

  6. Comment by Duckman GR.

    Kevin who?

  7. Comment by davidawood53.

    Nope! It wil be remembered throughout history!

  8. Comment by bigwhoop.

    Not gonna happen, and if you think people are pissed now, wait until Republicans try that. If anything, there's a 3rd impeachment in his future.

  9. Comment by Will Stockwin.

    I wonder where the Extreme Court MAGA majority is going to 'find' expunging presidential impeachments in The Constitution. Probably the same place it found presidential immunity for crimes committed in office, which as I recall was pulled straight out of John Roberts' ass.

  10. Comment by davidawood53.

    We'll corect any mistakes or falsehoods, when you fools are sittng back at home...

  11. Comment by No Dolls 4 Donny.

    I just wish I could erase Trump, his family, and his ENTIRE administration from my mind! 😵‍💫🤮🤯😖🥴

    • Reply by ecortez.

      If you had a killer cyborg and a time machine, he'd probably top the list to be terminated as a child. Although there's so many others. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, etc. Good thing machines don't need sleep. 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 ...

  12. Comment by eXtina.

    I can't even listen to this man. "The whole thing was rigged" WTF was rigged? How do you rig an impeachment. I can't stand listening to him.

    And johnson- "new evidence"???? Wtf are you even talking about, there no new evidence! Of what!

  13. Comment by MtnClimber.

    He's hellbent on replacing our history with his own lies. They only way he will ever look good is if he gets the history books "doctored".

    • Reply by mike101.

      "doctored", no... Rigged!

      Trump needs the history books to be rigged.

  14. Comment by ecortez.

    There is literally no mechanism in the Constitution for expunging an impeachment. You would have to amend it to create such a mechanism.

    A resolution to wipe out an impeachment has no legal force, it would be an utterly meaningless piece of paper. Republicans know this. Trump doesn't get it when you tell him he can't do something though, because laws and stuff, so maybe they figure if they pass a pointless bill grandpa will sign it, go back to sleep and stop bothering them.

    • Reply by MtnClimber.

      To be fair, he's not very bright....and that is being too nice.

    • Reply by PQuincy2014.

      Not only is there mechanism for expunging the impeachments: there is in fact a very precise requirement for recording them:

      Article I

      Section 5 Proceedings

      Clause 3 Records

      Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.

      The House is _required_ to keep a record of its votes, if 20% request recording. The vote to impeach is a vote with yeas and nays. That can't be changed or un-done or "expunged" in any way shape or form. The words are there. A vote to "expunge" could be recorded, but that's all it would be, the record of a vote on a meaningless resolution. Moreover, the journal _must_ be published and available to the public.

  15. Comment by timbermanx.

    And Johnson claims to be a super [c]hristian, oddly. Some tenets missing seems.

    • Reply by MtnClimber.

      Many mass murderers claimed to be Christian, too. Johnson is a disgusting enabler that uses his "religion" to "justify" very immoral things.

    • Reply by Chartreuxe.

      Hitler was a Catholic vegetarian who loved dogs.

      Evil comes in different flavors.

  16. Comment by miketada.

    If Bill Clinton couldn't (why should he have anyway), neither can trump.

  17. Comment by Shoeboo.

    It's not going to happen you orange pedophile. The country knows exactly what you did. More than half of this country do NOT! like you. People died because of you. We want you out of our White House. We know you are a crook, a felon, a grifter, a conman and a sorry POS. I never understood how the menace had that sorry ass show; the Apprentice that was some crap. If Democrats get control of the House and Senate and they have some damn sense; they need to impeach his ass again.

  18. Comment by alamancedem.

    But, but isn't that what is going to keep his name in the history books?

  19. Comment by Clytemnestra.

    It's too bad we couldn't give Americans a refresher course on how bad trump administration was during trump 1.0

  20. Comment by barneydogg.

    Johnson: Pipsqueak of the House. What a toad. How do these fucks live with themselves? How do their families stand it? JFC.

    • Reply by Wynter.

      Heavy drinking, illicit drug use, and selling your soul. Those are the requirements for most Trump Republicans.

    • Reply by Duckman GR.

      Amen barneydogg. I don't know, they have some serious problems. A lot of them aren't Himmler/Heydrich bad, just greedy and selfish. Living in denial somehow, but how you can ignore that Everest sized mountain of bad actions and betrayal I don't know.

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