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Trump is hellbent on erasing his impeachments



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.”



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.





 



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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.



“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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