{"id":11425,"date":"2023-08-11T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2023-08-11T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:45:54","slug":"history-has-a-warning-for-kevin-mccarthy-about-expunging-trumps-impeachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11425","title":{"rendered":"History Has a Warning for Kevin McCarthy About Expunging Trump\u2019s Impeachments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The lesson for Kevin McCarthy is pretty clear. Once impeached \u2014 or, in this case, twice \u2014 a president cannot be unimpeached. The original act lives on in public memory \u2014 through news articles, history books and, now, criminal proceedings. But one suspects Kevin McCarthy already knows this. A vote to expunge Trump\u2019s impeachments from the record solves a short-term political problem. It does nothing to address the underlying challenges that led to the impeachments in the first place.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/07\/21\/history-has-a-warning-for-kevin-mccarthy-about-expunging-trumps-impeachments-00107496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/07\/21\/history-has-a-warning-for-kevin-mccarthy-about-expunging-trumps-impeachments-00107496<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The lesson for Kevin McCarthy is pretty clear. Once impeached \u2014 or, in this case, twice \u2014 a president cannot be unimpeached. The original act lives on in public memory \u2014 through news articles, history books and, now, criminal proceedings. But one suspects Kevin McCarthy already knows this. A vote to expunge Trump\u2019s impeachments from the record solves a short-term political problem. It does nothing to address the underlying challenges that led to the impeachments in the first place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,221,294,1809,170],"class_list":["post-11425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11426,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions\/11426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}