New in PJ Media:
It would be a symbolic gesture, but a powerful one, a rare pushback against the Left’s frenzied demonization of Donald Trump and his supporters: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday that he was in favor of expunging both impeachments of Donald Trump, explaining that one “was not based on true facts” and the other was “on the basis of no due process.” That’s certainly true. “I think it is appropriate,” McCarthy added, just as I thought before, that you should expunge it because it never should have gone through.” Indeed.
McCarthy’s stance now represents something of a shift. The Hill pointed out Friday that “immediately following the Capitol rampage, McCarthy went to the floor and said Trump bore ‘responsibility’ for the violence.” That position, however, was impossible to sustain in the face of the fact that Trump had told protesters to proceed “peacefully,” as well as more recent revelations that FBI agents and D.C. cops played a large role in the bogus “insurrection”; McCarthy backed off and reconciled with the former president.
The Hill notes that “House GOP Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) launched an effort to expunge Trump’s impeachments on Thursday, unveiling two resolutions that would discard the disciplines.” This effort would “reset the historical record ‘as if such Articles had never passed.’”
This would be a matter of simple justice. The first impeachment was over a phone call Trump had with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which he spoke about Biden’s shady dealings in Ukraine; Democrats trumpeted this as an illicit “quid pro quo” while doing their best to get you to forget that Biden’s Ukraine connections are indeed questionable and that their current pretend president has engaged in behavior that was quite similar to what they falsely accused Trump of doing. The second impeachment hinged on Jan. 6, with Trump portrayed as trying to overthrow the government by sending a guy wearing face paint and Viking horns into the Capitol.
Trump was impeached in the House but not convicted either time. The “evidence” of his guilt that was presented during the impeachment hearings looks ever flimsier as more is revealed about the Biden regime’s efforts to demonize and destroy their foremost opponent. McCarthy and the Republican majority in the House could do a great deal to strike back against this effort (which is a genuine threat to “our democracy” that Democrats profess to be so worried about) by expunging the impeachments.
Walter Sieruk says
The second sentence of the ,above, title expounds the serious threat well. For it reads “What’s at stake is bigger than Trump alone.”
For those indictments against Donald Trump by those vicious malice-filled leftists in power isn’t really “; legal prosecution” but political persecution.
Those vicious leftist/socialists along with their comrades of the Red/Green alliance have now come after Donald Trump with all their hate-filled malice, it’s only a matter of time before they will later come after all Conservative patriotic Americans.
Walter Sieruk says
Those terrible libelous indictment charges against Donald Trump reveal not only the malice of those in high power in the far-left wing but further exposes that Joe Biden is a very vindictive vicious man.
If that isn’t bad enough Biden is also a corrupt subversive and treasonous villain.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They need to do both: expunge the Trump impeachments, while start preparing articles of impeachment against Biden for Hunter-gate. People like Alan Dershowitz may argue that it should be left up to the voters, and indeed, it should. But the impeachment against Biden, which won’t go anywhere in the senate, would still be needed to show people what the criteria should be for impeaching a president