After years of noises about “expunging” convicted felon President Trump’s two impeachments but for whatever reasons never actually getting around to it – failures that reportedly contributed to Kevin McCarthy’s political demise in 2023, lol – his supplicants in the House will move forward on it as part of what the Wall Street Journal writes is “a broader effort to burnish his presidential legacy.”
Trump himself confirmed this to the Journal, telling reporters “It should be done because I did nothing wrong. It was a rigged deal – it was a whole rigged situation,” during a brief call, further confirmed by Jesus Dork Mike Johnson, who said “it makes a lot of sense the more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments,” adding that the conversations about the resolution picked up about a month ago. “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,” Johnson continued, as though he gave up on impeaching Joe Biden in early 2024 because of his commitment to the decent, virtuous governance of a statesman.
Johnson gave up because he didn’t have the votes. For similar reasons, the Journal that any expungement “likely wouldn’t be considered until after the November election… Even then, it would be difficult to garner the votes needed to pass,” making this whole stupid gambit even stupider.
For one, because the only meaning of this is the symbolic collective sentiment of the House of Representatives judging the actions of a previous Congress, then there is literally nothing stopping a Dem majority in January from passing a “repungement” or whatever the hell you want to call it, which they will do before they get around to the third and possibly fourth impeachment.