House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is denying claims he promised to hold a vote to expunge former President Donald Trump‘s impeachments.
Recent reports claimed Rep. McCarthy made the promise to Trump as a way of easing tensions between the two.
“There's no deal,” McCarthy told reporters Thursday, “but I've been very clear from long before when I voted against impeachments that they did it for purely political purposes.”
“I support expungement but there's no deal out there,” he added.
Those comments contradict a Thursday morning report from Politico Playbook that claimed the House Speaker promised Trump that the House would vote to erase his impeachments, citing a source close to Trump and familiar with the conversation.
The Politico report claimed McCarthy made the promise after telling a reporter that he was “unsure” if Trump was the “strongest” person to beat Trump in 2024, reportedly landing him in hot water with the former president.
Last month, the House Speaker signaled support for expunging both of Trump's impeachments last month, telling reporters that one of the rebukes “was not based on true facts” and the other was “on the basis of no due process.” He said it was “appropriate” to expunge them “because it never should have gone through.”
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Perhaps McCarthy wants to make sure he has enough votes to actually PASS the expungement of Trump’s impeachments before actually attempting said vote?
With the amount of TDS-infected Democrats and back-stabbing RINOs currently occupying the house and the senate, passing such a vote may be problematic.
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