Issa Just Dropped Nuclear Option to Erase the Democrats’ Two Fake Impeachments

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The same clowns who spent years turning the Constitution into a cheap prop for their endless Trump hunts just got served notice. Congressman Darrell Issa introduced a straight-up resolution to expunge both of those phony impeachments from the official record, calling them the malicious political stunts they always were. It’s the kind of move that makes the swamp sweat because it forces everyone to confront the ugly truth: the whole circus was never about high crimes or misdemeanors. It was about raw power, manufactured outrage, and trying to kneecap a president the coastal elites couldn’t beat at the ballot box. But here’s the real question everyone’s asking: can you actually “unimpeach” a guy who was never guilty in the first place, and does Issa have a snowball’s chance in the D.C. summer heat of making it stick?

The Resolution That’s Got the Left Panicking

On April 23 Issa filed H.Res. 1211, a clean, no-nonsense measure that declares the December 18, 2019, and January 13, 2021, impeachments of President Trump null and void. It orders the House Clerk to expunge them from the official records, effectively wiping the stain off the books like it never happened. No hearings required, no Senate trial rerun—just a straightforward House vote saying the whole thing was a sham from day one and it doesn’t get to stand as some permanent scarlet letter on Trump’s legacy.

This isn’t some fringe idea cooked up in a think tank. It’s the logical next step after the voters handed Republicans the House and the country rejected the entire Russia-hoax-to-January-6 pipeline of lies. The first impeachment was built on a nothingburger phone call and a whistleblower who wasn’t even in the room. The second was a rush-job revenge fantasy over a riot the left spent months pretending was an armed insurrection while ignoring their own summer of love. Both times the Senate acquitted Trump because the charges were political theater, not serious offenses. Issa’s resolution calls that bluff and says enough is enough.

Why the Constitution Makes This Trickier Than It Looks

Here’s the cold constitutional reality the lawyers will chew on for weeks. Impeachment is a political process spelled out in the document itself: the House brings the charges, the Senate holds the trial. Once the House votes to impeach, that action is a historical fact. There’s no clause, no precedent, and no magic button that lets a future Congress hit undo. The Founders designed it that way on purpose. They wanted the process to be serious, not some revolving door where today’s majority erases yesterday’s embarrassment.

Scholars have kicked this around since the first Trump impeachment, and the consensus is brutal: an impeachment isn’t a criminal conviction you can expunge like a speeding ticket. It’s a formal accusation that triggers a Senate proceeding. Even if the Senate acquits, the House vote still happened. Issa’s resolution is a sense-of-the-House statement at best. It can pass the House, get entered into the record, and make a loud political noise, but it can’t rewrite history or bind future Congresses. The Clerk might note the expungement in the Journal, but the original votes, the articles, and the Senate trials remain in the Congressional Record forever. That’s not a bug. It’s the system working exactly as intended.

The left will scream that this sets a dangerous precedent. Funny how they never said that when they were impeaching Trump twice in record time with zero chance of conviction. What Issa is doing is the mirror image: using the same political tool they abused to declare their abuse invalid. It’s poetic justice, even if it’s mostly symbolic.

The Path Forward and Why the Odds Are Long but the Message Is Loud

Right now the resolution sits in the House Judiciary Committee. Republicans control the House, so it has a real shot at getting a floor vote before the August recess. If it passes the House it goes to the Senate, where the math gets ugly. Democrats still hold enough seats to block anything they don’t like, and they’ll treat this like the end of democracy itself. Even if a handful of reasonable Democrats break ranks, the filibuster and simple majority rules make Senate passage a heavy lift. The Vice President could break a tie if it ever gets that far, but don’t hold your breath waiting for Senate Democrats to let their precious narrative get erased.

Success isn’t really about the final vote tally anyway. The real win is forcing the country to relitigate the impeachments in public, reminding voters that the whole exercise was a partisan hit job that wasted time, money, and credibility. It puts every Democrat on record defending the indefensible right before the midterms heat up. And it gives Trump the ultimate vindication: even the House that tried to destroy him is now on the record saying the impeachments were bogus.

The America First Payoff

This isn’t some dusty procedural fight. It’s about whether the political class gets to smear a president, fail spectacularly, and then pretend the smear never happened while the target walks away clean. Issa’s move says no more. The two impeachments were always phony, always political, and always meant to hobble the one guy who threatened the permanent bureaucracy. Expunging them won’t rewrite the Constitution, but it will rewrite the political narrative in a way that drives the left insane.

The odds of full legal success are slim to none because the Founders didn’t build an undo button. The odds of political success are a lot higher because the American people are tired of watching one side play by one set of rules while the other side gets to rewrite them whenever it’s convenient. Issa just reminded everyone that payback is a dish best served in the House chamber. The phony impeachments don’t get erased from the history books, but they sure as hell get erased from the moral high ground the Democrats claimed for four straight years. And that’s a victory worth fighting for.