{"id":1980751,"date":"2023-07-23T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-says-mccarthy-is-playing-politics-in-considering-expunging-trump-impeachments\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:36:54","slug":"nancy-pelosi-says-mccarthy-is-playing-politics-in-considering-expunging-trump-impeachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-says-mccarthy-is-playing-politics-in-considering-expunging-trump-impeachments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi accuses McCarthy of political maneuvering in Trump impeachment expungement."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnancy-pelosi-says-mccarthy-is-playing-politics-in-considering-expunging-trump-impeachments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former \u2063House Speaker Nancy Pelosi \u2062Questions Constitutionality of Expunging Trump&#8217;s Impeachments<\/h2>\n<p>Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has\u2064 raised doubts about the \u2062constitutionality of House \u200bSpeaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-CA) plan to expunge former President Donald Trump&#8217;s two \u200cimpeachments. \u2063In an interview \u200bwith Dana Bash on CNN&#8217;s State\u2062 of the\u2063 Union, Pelosi \u200baccused McCarthy of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-months-of-lockdowns-and-stonewalling-pelosi-calls-600-direct-payment-checks-to-suffering-americans-significant-video\/\" title=\"After Months of Lockdowns and Stonewalling, Pelosi Calls 0 Direct Payment Checks to Suffering Americans \u201cSignificant\u201d (VIDEO)\">playing politics<\/a>&#8221; with\u2064 the \u200bissue.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin is\u2062 playing \u2062politics. It&#8217;s not even clear if \u200bhe \u2064constitutionally can expunge those things. If \u2062he wants to\u200d put his members on the spot, his members in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-crucial-senate-target-just-got-harder-for-republicans-to-flip-in-2024\/\" title=\"This Crucial Senate Target Just Got Harder for Republicans to Flip in 2024\">difficult races<\/a>\u200c on\u2062 the spot, that&#8217;s a decision he has\u200b to make,&#8221; Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy, who owes his speakership in part to Trump&#8217;s \u2062endorsement, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-says-mccarthy-is-playing-politics-in-considering-expunging-trump-impeachments\/\" title=\"Nancy Pelosi accuses McCarthy of political maneuvering in Trump impeachment expungement.\">previously denied making<\/a> a &#8220;deal&#8221; with \u2062Trump regarding\u200d the expungement of the \u200dimpeachments before Congress&#8217;s August recess. \u2063However, he\u200c did express support for expungements in \u2062cases where the impeachments were deemed to\u2064 be &#8220;purely \u200cpolitical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi warned that McCarthy&#8217;s political maneuvering could \u2064pose a risk\u2064 to vulnerable \u200bHouse Republicans in the \u200bupcoming 2024 election. She emphasized that expunging\u200b the impeachments is &#8220;not responsible&#8221; and highlights the extent of Trump&#8217;s influence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As I&#8217;ve said before, Donald Trump is the puppeteer, \u2063and what \u2064does he do all of the time?\u200d Shine a light on the strings. These people look pathetic,&#8221; \u200dPelosi said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, \u200bReps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) introduced a resolution to expunge Trump&#8217;s impeachments from Dec. 18, 2019, and Jan. 13, 2021. McCarthy had indicated that he\u200d would consider the resolution when it was introduced. \u200dHowever, concerns have been \u200draised\u2062 among House Republicans about the potential divisions that could arise \u200cfrom such a vote.<\/p>\n<h3>LACKS \u2063THE VOTES, HAS THE JOB: BIDEN KEEPING JULIE\u200b SU \u200cAS ACTING \u2064LABOR SECRETARY INDEFINITELY<\/h3>\n<p>Pelosi\u200b also emphasized that \u200dthe decision to bring forth an impeachment was not taken lightly, but the House\u2063 ultimately had\u2064 &#8220;no choice.&#8221; She \u200durged against expunging the impeachments, highlighting the \u200cneed to hold Trump accountable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read\u2063 more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubts the constitutional validity of Speaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s attempt to expunge Donald Trump&#8217;s impeachments. Accusing McCarthy of political maneuvering, Pelosi expressed her skepticism during an interview with Dana Bash on CNN&#8217;s State of the Union. McCarthy had previously denied any &#8220;deal&#8221; with Trump regarding the House&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}