Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said the allegations that
Trump was guilty of colluding with the Russian government were false….
"I will be putting forward a resolution to void the
fraudulent impeachment of President Trump during his first term in office.
Russia collusion never happened," Luna wrote in a statement on social
media.
first reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a White House official, would allow Trump to claim a symbolic victory on a key grievance from his first term. But experts say it would have little legal significance, since the constitution provides no procedure for undoing an impeachment.
Trump is the first president in US history to be impeached twice. The first case, in 2019, centred on allegations that he abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a political rival. He was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020.
The second followed the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, when members of Congress accused him of inciting an insurrection. He was again acquitted after leaving office.
According to the Journal, Trump and his allies are seeking a congressional resolution that would effectively expunge the impeachments from the historical record. While such a measure would carry no legal force, supporters view it as a symbolic repudiation of what they regard as politically motivated proceedings.
I will be putting forward a resolution to void the fraudulent impeachment of President Trump during his first term in office.
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) June 12, 2026
Russia collusion never happened. This has been proven by evidence released by ODNI Gabbard. It was a terrible lie that tore this country apart, and was…
The two impeachments agains Donald Trump were not based on the Mueller report. The first, pertaining to Ukraine, had little to nothing to do with either "Russia collusion" or Donald Trump's status as a Russian asset and the other pertained to the coup attempt of 1/6/21.
However, erasing the record has been an obsession of Donald Trump for several years. Even during the presidential campaign of 2024, there was an attempt to expunge the two impeachments of Donald Trump from the historical record, as the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama reported at the time.
The effort resumed after Trump began serving his second term. The New Republic noted last August
The Smithsonian has removed Donald Trump from its exhibit on
impeachments under pressure from the White House, reported The Washington Post.
The remainder of the exhibit focuses on Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard
Nixon, and Bill Clinton, effectively returning the exhibit to the way it looked
in 2008.
A temporary label had been plastered on the exhibit since
2021, playfully notifying visitors: “case under redesign (history happens).”
The “American Presidency” wing’s updated signage now explains that “only three
presidents have seriously faced removal” over the course of American history.
The change was the result of a White House–initiated content
review in the wake of an art director’s ousting.
Of course, the two indictments of President Trump cannot be annulled, cancelled, repealed, rescinded, revoked, or voided. (Insert preferred synonym here ______ .) Article I of the U.S. Constitution, which enumerates the powers of Congress, gives the House of Representatives the authority to impeach, and the US Senate the authority to convict, a federal official.
The document says nothing suggesting any authority to reverse an impeachement, and clearly neither body of Congress can do so. Congress can pass a resolution to pretend the impeachment(s) never occurred, just as it could pass one declaring that the winner of Super Bowl 60 was the New England Patriots.
That would not erase the Seahawks' victory or championship. Of course, it would make Donald J. Trump feel good. And there is nothing more important to Donald Trump than feeling good, other than reipping off the American people and making the American people and his adversaries feel bad.
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