Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, is making moves to “expunge” impeachment attempts against President Donald Trump.
The congressman has introduced a House resolution that aims to address the two attempts to impeach Trump, both of which were approved in the House of Representatives in 2019 and 2021. Issa believes the Democrats used “knowingly false” claims to harm Trump’s reputation, and the attempts should be “expunged as if such Article had never passed the full House of Representatives.”
Speaking to Fox News Digital, Issa pointed out that there is no Constitutional direction for dealing with “wrongfully indicted” presidents.
“The fact is that the Constitution doesn’t spell out what to do when you’ve wrongfully indicted somebody. An impeachment is basically an indictment and it’s an indictment that you can’t really be acquitted from. If you are impeached by the House, famously, where do you go to get your reputation back, is the question,” he said. “And that’s sort of a problem that we’re dealing with, which is that the president was wrongfully accused, the evidence is now out that there was withheld information and false information, but where do we go to unring this bell? And the answer is we go back to Congress and we go to the House floor and we have a vote.”
“More importantly,” Issa wants the process to “make sure that the facts and the reality that there was misconduct in the process gets a hearing” because he says that is “really where this becomes a big deal is that we really have to make our case in front of Congress and in front of the American people.”
According to the resolution, the 2019 attempt is said to have been “based on unreliable and politically biased information, pointing to newly declassified material that it says undermines the credibility of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint triggered the inquiry,” Fox News reports.
It further claims that the 2021 impeachment was “rushed and procedurally flawed, noting that the House moved from introduction to passage in two days and did not conduct a full evidentiary process.” It also alleged that the speed with which the process was undertaken ultimately denied the president due process.
“They impeached him for essentially an insurrection, a true high crime, and it’s false,” Issa argued.
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is backing the effort.
“Democrats weaponized impeachment against President Trump with politically motivated charges,” he said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We applaud Chairman Issa for leading the fight to expunge this sham from the record.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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