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 117th
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
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