It’s on the menu!
Who says these House Republicans don’t have an agenda to benefit the American people?
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he’s willing to take a look at expunging an impeachment of former president Donald Trump by the Democratic-led House.
Trump — now a 2024 candidate — was impeached twice during his four-year presidency: in 2019, for withholding military aid from Ukraine in exchange for political favors, and in 2021, for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
In the previous Congress, groups of Republicans floated resolutions to expunge both impeachments. Supporters of the latter included Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), the Republican conference chairwoman.
Asked at a news conference about the prospect of an expungement now that Republicans control the House, McCarthy said, “I would understand why members would want to bring that forward.”
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In the last Congress, Stefanik and then-Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) backed a resolution to expunge Trump’s impeachment over Jan. 6.
“Democrats used their second impeachment resolution to once again weaponize one of the most grave and consequential powers of the House,” Mullin said at the time. “This was never about the Constitution; it was rooted in personal politics.”
Mullin, now a U.S. senator, had sponsored a similar resolution to strike Trump’s first impeachment.
Stefanik, who is No. 4 in House GOP leadership, said last year that the Jan. 6 impeachment was a “sham process.”
“President Donald Trump was rightfully acquitted, and it is past time to expunge Democrats’ sham smear against not only President Trump’s name, but against millions of patriots across the country,” she said.
The Democratic-led House ignored the resolution, which had more than two dozen Republican co-sponsors. But with Republicans in the majority, such a resolution could get a vote.
Maybe they should think about expunging the January 6th Committee and Mueller Reports too. This seems to be their new thing. Don’t like the way the presidential vote turned out? Substitute fake electors to pretend it didn’t!
That’s the ultimate revelation of the Trump years: just act like up is down and black is white and you can get tens of millions of zealots and fools to believe it.