House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he would “take a look” at trying to reverse former President Donald Trump’s double impeachment.
The Washington Post noted that Republicans in the last Congress proposed resolutions to strike or overturn the charges, but they never got anywhere.
Asked at a news conference Thursday about now-dropped allegations that Republicans control the House, McCarthy said, “I would understand why members would want to push this.”
She added: “I understand why people want to do this and we would look at it.”
He did not provide further details.
Trump was impeached by the House in 2019 for abuse of power after he tried to encourage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — while withholding major military aid — to launch a bogus investigation into Joe Biden before the candidate to take over the presidency.
Trump was later indicted for his role in the January 6 riot.
After the violence, McCarthy told the courtroom that “the president has responsibility [the] attack on Congress by mobs. He should have reported the mob immediately when he saw what was happening.”
Trump was acquitted in Senate trials after each of the impeachments, but the House impeachment remains.
Noah Bookbinder, president of the Washington-based watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, he wrote in a tweet that it was “outrageous that President McCarthy is considering impeaching Donald Trump. Trump incited a violent insurrection and tried to overturn the election he had lost. Congress should have removed him from office.
Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis scoffed at McCarthy’s position, tweeting: “I’m not sure that’s how it works.”
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