McCarthy backs effort to expunge Trump impeachments

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is throwing his weight behind the conservative effort to expunge the two impeachments of former President Trump, saying Trump’s behavior didn’t rise to a level that merited either punishment, and he would like to eradicate both votes from history. 

Leaving the Capitol on Friday ahead of a long holiday recess, the Speaker said he supports erasing the pair of impeachments because, he argued, one “was not based on true facts” and the other was “on the basis of no due process.”

“I think it is appropriate, just as I thought before, that you should expunge it because it never should have gone through,” McCarthy told reporters outside his office. He later clarified he supports expunging both Trump impeachments, but he emphasized such resolutions must first go through the committee process.

The Speaker’s endorsement of the expungement push highlights both the tenuous grip McCarthy has on his conference, where conservatives are holding his feet to the fire on numerous policy issues, and the powerful influence Trump retains over the Republican Party more than two years after leaving office. 

 

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[Tug]

Now that’s groveling on a whole other level 

[bamnutsak]

Ex-sponge. That sounds like Don Jr.

 

The effort to expunge his impeachment is without historical precedent. Georgetown University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, whose expert advice Republicans sometimes seek, noted that the U.S. Constitution contains no provision for expunging impeachments.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-republicans-seek-expunge-trump-impeachments-2023-06-23/

[Jingthing]

This is pathetic.

History will show that Florida man and box hoarder Trump was impeached Twice regardless of what they do.

[Chomper Higgot]

Perhaps the GOP wish to expunge the fact that they twice had the opportunity to hold Trump to account but turned it down.

 

Lay with a dog, get up with flees.

[Kwaibill]

Typically expungement of an offense involves some evidence of rehabilitation, which is notably lacking here. I am not sure that you can expunge an indictment, which is what impeachment is.

McCarthy is off base about claiming “ punished enough”. Trump was not punished at all, as the senate of the time simply chose to not prosecute, strictly on party lines.

[vandeventer]

All built on lies, heads should roll.

[candide]

10 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

All built on lies, heads should roll.

Which lies?

[jvs]

20 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

All built on lies, heads should roll.

Whose lies?I assume the orange man's?