GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik Introduce Resolutions to Expunge Trump’s Impeachments; Speaker McCarthy Supports Expunging Trump’s Impeachments Over Ukraine and Jan. 6

GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik introduce resolutions to expunge Trump’s impeachments:

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik on Thursday unveiled measures to “expunge” former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments, arguing that the accusations against the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner were politically motivated and did not meet the burden of proving the commission of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

The resolution introduced by Greene (R-Ga.) targets Trump’s 2019 impeachment over allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to a phone call the then-president had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which he asked his counterpart to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

The measure from Stefanik (R-NY) seeks to expunge Trump’s 2021 impeachment related to his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.

“The American people know Democrats weaponized the power of impeachment against President Donald Trump to advance their own extreme political agenda,” Stefanik said in a statement on Thursday.

“From the beginning of this sham process, I stood up against Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff’s blatant attempt to shred the Constitution as House Democrats ignored the Constitution and failed to follow the legislative 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.” —>READ MORE HERE

Speaker McCarthy supports expunging Trump’s impeachments over Ukraine and Jan. 6

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Friday he supports the idea of expunging the two impeachments of Donald Trump as hard-right Republican allies of the former president introduce a pair of proposals to declare it as though the historic charges never happened.

McCarthy told reporters that he agrees with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik who want to erase the charges against Trump from the former president’s impeachments of 2019 and 2021.

“I think it is appropriate,” said McCarthy, the Republican from California. “Just as I thought before — that you should expunge it, because it never should have gone through.”

Pressed on his views, McCarthy said he agreed with expunging both of Trump’s impeachments — the abuse of power charges in 2019 over pressing Ukraine’s president to dig up dirt on rival Joe Biden and the 2021 charge that Trump incited the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol as Trump supporters tried to overturn Biden’s election.

In both cases, Trump was acquitted by the Senate after his impeachment by the House. But expunging the charges from his record would be an action he could further tout as vindication as he seeks another term in the White House.

The effort is the latest by Trump’s allies to rewrite the narrative of the defeated president’s tenure in office. And it underscores the pressure McCarthy is under from his right flank.

Just this week, McCarthy beat back a proposal from Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., to impeach President Biden, sending it instead to committees for review. —>READ MORE HERE

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