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

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By LISA MASCARO an hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.




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[MontanaMama]

1. I don't think that's a thing Kevin..,

But you do you.

[AZ8theist]

37. Sure, Kev, try ERASING the actual event(s).....

Just as soon as you get about 330 million of those memory eraser things from "Men in Black"...

[reymega life]

2. aint happening

[Walleye]

3. So next time we get the House we can expunge Bill Clintons impeachment

[Beachnutt]

8. Sounds like a plan to me..

[tclambert]

34. . . . and unexpunge Trump's.

I call reverse expungification times infinity.

[Walleye]

35. Good one, it never ends

[EndlessWire]

44. LOL! n/t

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

50. Yes!

and expungification is a most excellent way to put it!

[dchill]

52. Championship!!

[MayReasonRule]

59. It's Not Uno Lol

The Nat-C Fascist party”s newest “closely held belief…

Uno as the “rule of law”.

What a stinking crock of shite!

[Rebl2]

4. Going nowhere

quick

[Beachnutt]

5. Trump has the goods on these creeps,

trump is scared shitless and has leverage on members of the rethug party and obviously is ratcheting up the squeeze on these bastards.
They're all guilty and are trying like hell to pull some sort of rabbit outta the hat.
IMO.

[blue neen]

13. Yep.

Trump is really putting the heat on his buddies in Congress.

[Rhiannon12866]

29. And yesterday he demanded that his Republican nomination opponents agree to pardon him

[SunSeeker]

6. Someone appears to have expunged McCarthy's soul. nt

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[LoisB]

11. Kev was absent the day souls were given out. He missed the spine day too.

[crickets]

32. --and his brain along with it. nt

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

55. No evidence for souls

But if you mean his conscience, then I don't see how anyone could expunge that. It needed to exist in the first place, and it never did.

Or will.

[Rizen]

7. Fascism.

[MayReasonRule]

60. 1000% Right!!! Nat-C and Nazi are One and the Same!

Delusional malevolence on full display!

Bet he was clutching his balls as he proclaimed his “closely held beliefs.

Darwin awards aplenty, may they be early recipients.

[sanatanadharma]

9. Is this idea in the Constitution?

Is this idea in the Constitution?

[NBachers]

19. Or the Bible?

[AZ8theist]

40. Neither

[Martin68]

10. McArthy will do anything to get radical MAGAts on hissed. This is a totally lame non-starter

and he knows it.

[BidenRocks]

12. You do not get to rewrite history

Spoken like a true fascist!
Impeach Kevy!

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Show me where Congress is authorized to do that.

[bahboo]

15. feckless fuck....

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Never happened right? Re-writing history, banning books. Smells like a full-on fascist assault. n/t

[mwb970]

17. What horrible people republicans have become.

They make me sick.

[SouthernDem4ever]

31. +1

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

56. It's who they've been since around, oh, 1877

They just hid the worse parts better in the past. It verged on decent under Eisenhower (although not entirely--see: Iraq; see: Vietnam, see...well, any strongman dictatorship he supported), but the rest of the time?

Horrible people.

What we're seeing now is the full flowering of the backlash to the 60s under Nixon the traitor, and reagan, the other traitor.

[Deuxcents]

18. No. And hell no. Hopefully your constituents will expunge you next election

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

57. LOL

He's not going anywhere. He represents Bakersfield. That might as well be in the most hayseed parts of Texas or Oklahoma.

[PinkTiger]

58. Please don't call us "hayseeds."

I’m an Ozark hillbilly whose forebears were here long before 1776. Scottish immigrants who came after losing the Rebellion, and before that, in the 1600’s because of religious persecution in England.
We are the reason you have a country.
We fought in the Revolution. And we fought against the South in the Civil War.
When you call us “hayseeds” you denigrate us, you elitist pig.

[NBachers]

20. They're all going to be talking in capital letters and ridiculous weeping & self-pity soon.

trump is the Black Hole that's pulling the Maggot Party into full collapse.

[Rosetta Stone]

21. McCarthy is full of crap

He is truly full of shit

[twodogsbarking]

22. Need some Chapstick Kevin?

[617Blue]

23. So I guess they're not taking that off ramp from Trump?

Jeezus.

[intheflow]

38. Addiction is real.

They’re addicted to the drama TFG creates, they love how he successfully “proved” government is broken by purposefully stomping on the Constitution. Not to mention he modeled and gave permission to be shitty human beings to anyone they don’t like.

[patphil]

24. And when the Democrats take control, they can expunge the expunge.

More insanity from the Republicans...history didn't happen if you deny it.

[Fullduplexxx]

25. they will write a bullsht bill that says the impeachment is expunged the dems will say it's

ridiculous, which of course it will be , the cons will pass it and then just say he's been absolved and from then on anytime someone says to a rightwinger that trump was impeached they'll say nuh-uh . the fake news channel will say he been cleared and they will carry on as if he really was .

[ificandream]

26. It's stunts like these that cost them the midterms.

And will cost them the next election, too.

[Mr. Scorpio]

27. This sounds like a stunt that they would have pulled in the Stalinist Soviet Union

[intheflow]

39. Of course!

They love all things Russian.

[sakabatou]

28. How much Cheeto dust is on Kevin's lips?

[AZ8theist]

41. It's not Cheeto dust....

...but some other bodily fluid.

[mahina]

30. Supine. Despicable.

[tclambert]

33. First you need to create a Ministry of Truth to manage official history.

So they can tell us that Oceania was always at war with Eastasia, and Eurasia was always our ally, never the other way round. Only a follower of Goldstein would think it was ever the other way round.

[TeamProg]

36. There's a second Titanic Qevin. It's in the shape of an elephant. nt

[Lonestarblue]

42. Rewriting history because it's woke is now a Republican platform item.

In Republican world, if you just say it didn’t happen, then it didn’t. I suspect Trump has demanded this because in his fevered little brain, he thinks he can’t be prosecuted for January 6 if the impeachment goes away. We know they have nothing to do with each other, but Trump is not the brightest bulb.

[cstanleytech]

43. Flush the toilet bowl by all means but the GOP will never be able to remove the stain of shit off.

[mwb970]

45. He explicitly proposes erasing history that gives him bad feels.

The trump party is so far off the rails you can't even see it any more. What a bunch of weird, treasonous goofballs. Jesus.

[The Wizard]

46. In short, a failed leader and punk.(NT)

[Paladin]

47. Miserable little political whore. (nt)

[AZLD4Candidate]

48. He reinforces all the time why I call him Speaker Weak and Stupid.

[yardwork]

49. Great timing, Kevin. It's not like these are topical issues or anything.

[LiberalFighter]

51. I'm having a difficult time describing the situation.

Has his pickle turned into a willy.? Or has it always been a willy?

[Grins]

53. How is this not the GOP per George Orwell...

…and “The Ministry of Truth?”

All they need is their “O’Brien.”

[LiberalFighter]

54. Does McCarthy want to expunge Putin's record too?

[Marcuse]

61. Has the same effect as the Schiff censure. Pitiful.