Republicans in the House of Representatives are once again trying to come to Donald Trump's
defense, but not in the current, you know, indictments and investigations that the dude
is still facing.
No Republicans, Elise Stefanik with a little help from Marjorie Taylor Greene, but this
is mostly an Elise Stefanik thing.
They are now working on a resolution to expunge Donald Trump's two impeachments.
That is what Elise Stef put out in a press release this past Thursday, and she actually
even said, this is so freaking stupid , she said It would be, it would be as if such
articles of impeachment had never passed the full House of Representatives.
All we have to do, folks, according to Elise Stefanik, who I think is the number three
ranking Republican in the house, maybe number two, um, she's like, if we just expunge them,
it's like it never happened.
A magical cloud will descend upon the United States and wipe those impeachments out of
our memories.
Now, here's the thing.
Expunging a criminal record is something that is done typically for, you know, individuals.
They, they've either done their restitution or they've kind of proven that, listen, I
I'm definitely not that person anymore.
This is not who I am.
It's not what I want.
And of course, this thing on my record, this black mark is essentially making it difficult
for me to live my life.
You know, those are situations under which a criminal record can be expunged.
Donald Trump has not shown that he is a changed man.
If anything, he's shown that by God he is somehow even worse than he was when he was
in impeached.
So, you know, from the, the criminal justice perspective, there's no reason to have that.
You know, it's not like he entered a plea deal and said, okay, if I do this, this, and
this, abide by these rules for this amount of time after which my impeachment would be
expunged.
That didn't happen because technically Donald Trump was never convicted in the Senate and
because he was never convicted, I don't think legally you can expunge an impeachment.
Now you can't actually.
So I don't know exactly what Elise Stefanik, and again, with a little help from idiot Marjorie
Taylor Greene, I don't know what exactly their thinking is gonna happen with their resolution,
because technically because the articles of impeachment were voted on by the Full House
of Representatives, both times when it happened, they were passed by the House of Representatives
moved to the Senate where a trial took place trial and a conviction did not happen.
So this is not a criminal proceeding anymore, so you
Technically cannot expunge something that didn't happen.
Not to mention you cannot pass a resolution to simply undo an act of Congress, because
if we look at the articles of impeachment as essentially any other bill that passes
through the House of Representatives, because that's what it is, it's a, it's a piece of
legislation technically, and it passed the full house.
So you can't just have a gaggle of loonies out there that say, well, I got a resolution
to undo this thing we passed like that.
No.
Like, no, that's not a thing that can happen.
This would actually have to be done via legislation that may even have to pass both chambers,
which of course ain't gonna happen in the Senate.
But the bottom line is this, like their, their whole idiot stupidity of not understanding
how things work aside.
Cuz again, just dealing with the dumbest of the dumb, you cannot erase this from people's
minds.
Like you can expunge it all you want.
It's still gonna be in the history books.
People are not going to magically be like, well, no, he was never impeached, didn't happen.
Mm, no, no, I don't remember that at all.
They're, they're gonna know.
So legally it's a stupid thing because technically you can't do it.
And, and politically this is, you know, uh, uh, the dumbest thing you could do.
You are sticking your neck out for a guy to protect him on legal issues that are technically
dead and buried, which makes no sense.
All you're doing by even putting this back out there is reminding the public that needs
to vote for him next year, by the way that he was impeached twice.
That seems very dumb.
So no matter which way you wanna slice this, this is just another gaggle of idiot Republicans
doing the dumbest thing possible because somehow some way Donald Trump has turned every single
Republican in this country into a blithering idiot that doesn't understand how anything
works anymore.
That's what we have in a Republican party.
Not that they were all geniuses before Trump, but I don't think there's any left after Trump.