House Speaker McCarthy entertains the expungement of President Trump's impeachments

House Speaker McCarthy entertains the expungement of President Trump's impeachments

By Jessica Schultz Pleasant

On January 12, 2023, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was asked if he would support his colleagues reintroducing a bill to expunge the impeachments that were Democrat retaliation from Trump winning the presidency in 2016. Under ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former president Trump was impeached twice. Trump was impeached for the false allegations of a quid-pro-quo between Trump and the Ukranian president. Trump was then impeached after leaving office for the actions of rioters at the U.S. Capitol January 6, 2021.

On March 29, 2022, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-2) of the 117^th Congressional introduced bill H.Res.1010- Expunging the December 18, 2019, impeachment of President Donald John Trump. Not surprisingly, the last action taken on the bill was its introduction. The bill was prevented from being proposed due to Pelosi changing House rules, which gave her more power to prevent Republican bills going to the House floor for debate. Mullins was enjoined with 30 other House Republicans attempting to expunge the impeachment for the January 6, 2021, riot.

With each new Congress the representatives must reintroduce bills left unaddressed from previous Congresses. If a bill passes both legislative Houses, it goes to the president to be signed to become law. Bills can be prevented by a president taking advantage of the timing of a new Congress. A president can use a “pocket-veto” to prevent a bill passing. The president can run out the clock withholding his signature. When the president does not want to take a difficult stance on a subject, the president can stay silent while sitting on the bill until the next Congress.

According to MSN, the first Trump impeachment involved “his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the second, in early 2021, was for his part in the January 6 insurrection. Trump was acquitted in both subsequent Senate trials, making him still eligible to return to the presidency.”

Due to the Democrats, Trump was cast in a bad light with accusations around Russia collusion. It made later allegations of a quid-pro-quo with Ukraine appear a possibility for those that were susceptible to the propaganda over Russian ties to Trump. Democrats accused Trump of more election meddling when the Ukrainian call happened and Trump was falsely accused of bullying President Zelensky into providing information on President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

According to Fox News, on May 13, 2020, the Wall Street Editorial Board released 57 transcripts of Schiff’s interviews in the House Intelligence Committee regarding Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The committee probe started in January 2017 under then-Chair Devin Nunes and concluded in March 2018 with a report finding no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin. Most of the transcripts were ready for release long ago, but Mr. Schiff oddly refused to release them after he became chairman in 2019. He only released them last week when the White House threatened to do it first.”

In December 2017, Schiff told CNN he saw evidence that was undeniable proof Trump colluded with the Russians. Schiff stayed conspiratorial and hid behind his chair position on the House Intelligence Committee in 2019. Schiff told MSNBC in March 2017 that he could not “go into particulars, but there is more than circumstantial evidence now.”

The first impeachment was over Trump’s July 25, 2019, congratulatory call to the newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A telephone call Trump described as a “perfect”. Schiff was already seen as partisan and insincere from the beginning of the Trump-Russian collusion narrative. Schiff read the transcript of Trump’s phone call to President Zelensky from the Chair’s seat. Schiff’s performance of an obvious the worse dramatic script ever written. A soft-core porn script writer could not be worse than the writings of Schiff. Schiff is more like the delivery boy that gets rejected at the door.

“Oh, we got Trump this time” was shouted across Twitter.

Here is what Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) read from his seat during a hearing on September 26, 2019, as if in Trump’s words:

Once Schiff created the right sound bite for the mainstream media to gaslight voters, he went on to claim, “My summary of the president’s call was meant to be at least part in parody. The fact that’s not clear is a separate problem in and of itself. Of course, the president never said if you don’t understand me, I’m going to say it seven more times. My point is that’s the message that the Ukraine president was receiving in not so many words.”

According to USA Today, due to an August 12, 2019, Whistleblower complaint about the Ukraine call, Schiff presented the transcript during a hearing for the testimony of the Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire on September 26, 2019. In response, on September 30, 2019, Trump said Schiff “actually took words and made it up.”

On September 26, 2019, Fox News reported the opinion of Schiff’s predecessor, then top Republican in the House Intelligence Committee, Rep, Devin Nunes (R-CA) about the Ukraine call:

 “This operation began with media reports -- from the prime instigators of the Russian collusion hoax -- that a whistleblower is claiming President Trump made a nefarious ‘promise’ to a foreign leader,” Nunes continued. “The released transcript of the call has already debunked that central assertion, but that didn’t matter. The Democrats simply moved the goalposts and began claiming that there doesn’t need to be a quid pro quo for this conversation to serve as the basis for impeaching the president.”

According to The Hill, when Speaker McCarthy was asked if he would support the bills to expunge the Trump impeachments, “I would understand why members would want to bring that forward,” said McCarthy.

Incredible injustices occurred during the Trump Administration. Prior and during Trump’s Administration he was spied upon, abused, harassed, and mocked. It has been almost 10 years of American misery under the tyrannical Democrat party and their use of mainstream media did not only villainize Trump, but also their fellow Americans.  Only the Truth and its amplification can change the path America is on. This principle is at the core of journalism. Sadly, the media covered stories of gossip about Trump. Using the media’s authority with the public, they reported trashy articles and Democrat accusations as if a given fact. The media can no longer can be trusted.

Sources:

Flood, B.. (26 SEP 2019). “Schiff slammed for chalking up ‘disturbing’ fictional account of Trump-Ukraine call to ‘parody’. Fox News. Retrieved January 19, 2023. https://www.foxnews.com/media/schiff-parody

Flood, B. (26 SEP 2019). Nunes says Dems enlisted 'media mouthpieces' to gin up 'fake' impeachment grounds. Fox News. Retrieved January 19, 2023. https://www.foxnews.com/media/nunes-dems-enlisted-media-mouthpiece

Flood,B. (25 Sep 2019). Media 'move the goalposts' after release of Trump-Ukraine call transcript. Fox News. Retrieved January 19, 2023. https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-moving-goal-posts

Shapero, J. (13 JAN 2023). McCarthy says he will look at expunging Trump impeachment. The Hill. Retrieved January 19, 2023. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3811952-mccarthy-says-he-will-look-at-expunging-trump-impeachment/

Silver, S. (17 JAN 2023). Donald Trump Is Smiling: Could the GOP Erase His Impeachments? MSN. Retrieved January 19, 2023. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-is-smiling-could-the-gop-erase-his-impeachments/ar-AA16rumQ

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. (13 MAY 2020). WSJ Editorial Board: All the Adam Schiff transcripts – Chair knew there was no proof of Russia-Trump collusion. Fox News. Retrieved January 19, 2023. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/adam-schiff-transcripts-russia-trump-collusion-wsj