Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin introduced a resolution to expunge former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment on Tuesday, arguing it was “an unimaginable abuse of our Constitution.”
The resolution, if passed by the House, would expunge Trump’s 2019 impeachment for allegedly leveraging U.S. military aid to Ukraine for political favors, specifically investigations of the Biden family.
“President Trump was impeached over a sabotaged, perfect phone call,” Mullin said in the press release. “The hearsay of witnesses completely contradicted the plain text of the transcript. Facts did not matter, and Democrats in the House impeached President Donald J. Trump, nevertheless. Now, we have Joe Biden stoking international crises with public comments surrounding the same nation. And Democrats in Congress remain predictably speechless.”
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Mullin’s resolution used the term “expungement” because that was the verbiage used to describe the withdrawal of a censure against President Andrew Jackson in the U.S. Senate, a spokeswoman for Mullin told the Washington Examiner. The Senate “censured” Jackson in 1834 and later “expunged” the censure in 1837 after the Senate “switched hands,” the spokeswoman explained.
The resolution mentioned the impeachments of former Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, saying they were “based on well-defined and specific criminal acts” and arguing Trump’s impeachment was based “entirely on secondhand knowledge” from an anonymous “whistleblower.”
It also states Trump took “every reasonable measure to ensure that which transpired between the White House and Ukraine was as transparent as possible,” including releasing the transcript of a phone call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in September 2019 and releasing a redacted version of the anonymous whistleblower complaint “so that all Americans could read it for themselves.”
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Mullin announced he is running for the U.S. Senate seat in Oklahoma on Feb. 26 to replace retiring Sen. Jim Inhofe. If elected, Mullin said he would like to focus on energy issues, deregulation, and health policy.
