A number of lawmakers in Biden-won districts said they would not support a symbolic attempt to expunge the former president's record, if such a measure ever came to the House floor.
Kevin McCarthy denies he made any deal with Donald Trump to expunge his impeachment record. Even if the speaker did call for such a vote, a bloc of House GOP centrists would likely defeat it.
“It doesn’t make sense to me. Because if you’re found not guilty, what do we expunge?” Rep. Don Bacon said in an interview, referring to the findings of the Senate trials in both impeachments. “I think it’s silly. We should be moving forward, not backwards.” Bacon is not alone among purple-district Republicans, many of whom are questioning the purpose of voting to appease the scandal-plagued frontrunner of their 2024 primary. Some even doubted whether such an expungement was legally possible.
One House Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, described personally urging leadership not to bring it to the floor for a vote. And the GOP lawmaker further wondered whether the entire purpose of the new expungement push was to help Trump argue in court that his impeachment was erased as special counsel Jack Smith inches closer to an investigative conclusion.
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