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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has said that he agrees with the idea of removing from history the two unfounded impeachments against former President Trump. This is a surprising move that shows how much former President Trump still has power over the Republican Party, even though he hasn't been in office for more than two years. It also shows how much heat McCarthy is under from his peers, who see the false charges as nothing more than a witch hunt by Congress.
JUST IN: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy just signaled he is looking into EXPUNGING Donald Trump’s impeachment record.
Should he do it? https://t.co/ZbeyJABMMR
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) June 23, 2023
In 2019 and 2021, the House of Representatives impeached former President Trump twice. This was the first time in U.S. history that a president had been impeached twice by the House. But the Senate did the right thing and cleared him of all charges in both cases.
In the first impeachment, which happened at the end of 2019, President Trump was wrongly accused of abusing his power because he asked Ukrainian officials to look into Joe Biden and his son Hunter's shady business deals. The second impeachment happened in early 2021 because the left said Trump tried to start a revolution. This was just a political trick by the left to hurt Trump and the GOP.
Imagine that the charges against former President Trump were dropped. In that case, it would be the right thing to do to change the congressional record to show that the impeachments never had any real basis and were just a desperate attempt by the Democrats to get rid of President Trump for doing his job.
McCarthy's opponents keep saying that expungement would somehow change history and how people remember it, which is completely ridiculous. How could getting something erased change what had already happened? It would only fix a wrong record in Congress that was built on lies and deceit.
McCarthy said that the first impeachment was not based on facts and had even been mixed up with a separate probe by the Justice Department into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Concerning the second trial, he was right to say that it didn't follow due process because it happened so quickly in the week after the Capitol riot.
Given these facts, McCarthy's opinion on whether or not President Trump should be impeached shows how much his views have changed over time. At first, he said that Trump was to blame for the violence during the attack on the Capitol. But when the GOP came together to support Trump, he changed his mind and went to see him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few weeks later to thank him for his service to the country.
McCarthy's support for expungement shows how serious the GOP is about putting an end to the lies and false information that Democrats have been sharing since Trump became president. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) have tried to get rid of Trump's impeachments, which McCarthy has rightly backed. But there are no plans to put these ideas to a vote in the House right away, and Trump hasn't even been asked about it yet.
In the end, Democrats continue to defend their decision to impeach President Trump for the second time. This is because there is clear evidence that the then-losing President called his supporters to Washington and told them to march to the Capitol while Congress was certifying President Biden's election. But the real proof shows that the Democrats won't accept that they lost in 2016 and are trying to hurt President Trump and his supporters' reputations.
