How Trump Is Trying To Clear His Record—Including Impeachments And Hush Money Conviction
Key takeaways
- President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House on Feb.
- His efforts have so far been unsuccessful, and a federal judge is now weighing Trump’s third attempt to move the case to federal court following a hearing in February.
- For his hush money conviction, it’s unclear when a federal judge could rule on Trump’s latest effort to move the case to federal court.
Topline President Donald Trump is pressuring lawmakers to pass a resolution that would clear his two impeachments from his first term, The Wall Street Journal reports, part of a broader effort by the president to clear his legal record—even as he’s never actually faced any penalties for his alleged wrongdoing.
President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 6, 2020, one day after the Senate acquitted him on two articles of impeachment.Getty Images Key Facts Trump and his allies are discussing pushing GOP lawmakers to pass a resolution that would formally expunge his two impeachments, according to The Journal, which were based on his efforts to solicit help from Ukraine in the 2020 election and for his role in influencing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building.
The resolutions would largely be symbolic because the Constitution doesn’t actually specify that impeachments can ever be formally cleared, legal experts noted to The Journal, and would not have any practical effect, since Trump wasn’t actually convicted and removed from office in either case.