Representative Darrell Issa has introduced a resolution in the House that would formally expunge both impeachments of President Donald Trump from the congressional record, treating the 2019 and 2021 votes as though they never happened.
H.Res. 1211, introduced on April 23 and referred to the House Judiciary Committee, already has the backing of Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and more than 20 Republican cosponsors. The resolution calls both impeachments “maliciously false” and argues they were driven by politically biased evidence and procedural abuses that denied President Trump basic due process.
The move comes after years of declassified material that Issa says exposes the misconduct behind the original accusations.
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Fox News reported on Issa’s reasoning and the political stakes behind the resolution:
Issa told Fox News Digital that “the Constitution doesn’t spell out what to do when you’ve wrongfully indicted somebody.” He described impeachment as an indictment from which a president “can’t really be acquitted,” adding, “If you are impeached by the House, famously where do you go to get your reputation back, is the question.”
“The president was wrongfully accused, the evidence is now out that there was withheld information and false information, but where do we go to unring this bell? And the answer is we go back to Congress and we go to the House floor and we have a vote,” Issa said.
He added that he hopes the process will “make sure that the facts and the reality that there was misconduct in the process gets a hearing” before Congress and the American people. The resolution has support from House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and more than 20 Republican cosponsors, including Representatives Claudia Tenney, Harriet Hageman, Tim Burchett, and Tom McClintock.
Fox also noted that earlier expungement attempts in 2022 and 2023 died without hearings, markups, or floor votes. Issa argues this version is stronger because the record now includes material he says exposes withheld and false information behind the original accusations.
The resolution lays out its case in methodical detail, walking through the factual record behind each impeachment and the procedural failures that surrounded them.
On the 2019 impeachment, the resolution focuses squarely on the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint triggered the inquiry into President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It argues the whistleblower had no firsthand knowledge of the call, displayed what Intelligence Community Inspector General investigators called “indicia of an arguable political bias” against Trump, and was assisted by another biased intelligence community official in crafting the complaint.
The official text of H.Res. 1211 details those findings and several others:
The resolution states that the whistleblower “told Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) investigators the whistleblower did not have ‘direct knowledge’ of President Trump’s July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that served as the basis for the 2019 impeachment.” It further notes that a second biased intelligence official, identified as “Witness 2,” helped craft the complaint and had previously “coauthored the now-debunked 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment” alleging Russian interference on Trump’s behalf. Witness 2 had also worked alongside disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from the Bureau for sending politically biased text messages expressing a desire to use his position to prevent Trump from winning the 2016 election.
The resolution also accuses the then-Democrat chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of fabricating evidence of Trump’s phone conversation with Zelensky in a public hearing, falsely claiming he did not know the whistleblower’s identity despite evidence the whistleblower had met privately with his staff, and refusing to allow the whistleblower to testify, “depriving Members the ability” to examine the accuser’s credibility.
On the 2021 impeachment, passed just one week after the January 6 Capitol breach, the resolution argues the House acted without meaningful legislative process, without calling a single fact witness, and without giving President Trump any opportunity to respond to the charges against him. It was, in Issa’s framing, an indictment issued on pure political momentum rather than evidence.
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The operative language of the resolution is unambiguous. If passed by the House, both impeachments would be “expunged as if such Article had never passed the full House of Representatives.” The resolution is aimed at the House record. It leaves the separate Senate trial record alone while formally striking the House’s own accusation from the books.
Whether H.Res. 1211 reaches the House floor depends on Chairman Jordan and the Judiciary Committee. With more than 20 cosponsors already signed on and Jordan’s public support, the path forward exists. The harder question is whether House leadership will prioritize floor time for a vote that carries enormous symbolic weight but no direct legal consequence.
What the resolution does accomplish immediately is force a public reckoning with how both impeachments were conducted. The declassified evidence, the whistleblower’s lack of firsthand knowledge, the fabricated hearing evidence, the total absence of due process in 2021. All of it gets put on the record, in an official House resolution, with members asked to vote on whether the original accusations should stand.
That is exactly the kind of accountability the House record exists to preserve.
