Former President Donald Trump is pushing for a historic do-over on Capitol Hill, quietly backing a congressional resolution that would effectively wipe his two impeachments from the official record.
It is an unprecedented effort to legally alter the history of his first term—one that Trump himself insists is long overdue.
“It should be done because I did nothing wrong,” Trump said during a recent phone interview, dismissing the historic rebukes. “It was a rigged deal—it was a whole rigged situation.”
The move marks a fresh chapter in a broader, aggressive campaign by the former president to dismantle the legal and political black marks on his legacy. As his legal teams actively work to overturn his New York criminal conviction for falsifying business records and reverse a string of damaging civil rulings, Trump is now looking to Congress to clean up his legislative ledger.
He appears to have a powerful ally in his corner. House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed he has been in direct talks with Trump about the resolution, noting that discussions began intensifying about a month ago.
“I think it makes a lot of sense,” Johnson said. “The more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments. We were saying it at the time, now we know. They make a very compelling case that it should be expunged from the record, because it was a hyperpartisan attack job.”
Rewriting the Headlines of 2019 and 2021
To understand the current fight, you have to look back at the twin crises that defined the politics of Trump’s first term, both of which ended in party-line House impeachments followed by Senate acquittals.
The first collision occurred in December 2019. The Democrat-led House impeached Trump over allegations that he improperly leveraged American foreign aid to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into launching a corruption investigation into Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
At the time, the narrative was fiercely contested: Zelenskyy publicly maintained he felt no pressure from the White House, no investigation was ever launched, and the aid money was ultimately delivered before the fiscal deadline.
The second, darker flashpoint came in January 2021, in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot. House Democrats swiftly impeached Trump a second time, accusing him of inciting an insurrection. Trump’s defenders have long pointed to his actual words at the “Stop the Steal” rally that afternoon as a shield against that charge, highlighting his call for the crowd to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
A Legal Gray Area and New Fuel from the ODNI
Can a presidential impeachment actually be undone? The short answer is: nobody knows. Because it has never happened in the 250-year history of the republic, the Constitution offers no roadmap.
“It’s never been done. I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t be done,” said prominent defense attorney and Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who represented Trump during his first Senate trial.
Dershowitz admits the constitutional mechanics are entirely up in the air, but suggests public perception may outpace the legislative process. “History will expunge it already… because what’s been done is you’ve created so much doubt about the credibility of the main accuser that it’s hard for anybody to sit back now and say that was a just impeachment.”
That doubt is being heavily fueled by a recent, highly politicized drop of declassified intelligence documents. In April, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), led by Tulsi Gabbard, released a scathing news release accusing former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson of “weaponizing” the whistleblower process to “manufacture a conspiracy” that sparked the 2019 impeachment.
According to the ODNI’s current findings, Atkinson exceeded his authority by bypassing standard Department of Justice guidance and pushing forward with secondhand testimony. The agency alleges that top Democrats, including then-Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, used this “false, secondhand narrative” to orchestrate a media circus and force the impeachment vote.
Just like the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA collusion hoax, the clown show sham impeachment of President Trump in 2019 was a bull shit show trial of epic proportion to try to take out the duly elected President of the United States. https://t.co/M5giRdUzKp
— Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) April 13, 2026
Gabbard did not hold back in her assessment of the newly released files. “Deep state actors within the Intelligence Community concocted a false narrative that was used by Congress to usurp the will of the American people,” she stated, framing the disclosure as a victory for transparency against institutional abuse of power.
For Trump’s long-term allies, the ODNI report is validation of a years-long grievance. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, who defended Trump on the House floor during those 2019 hearings, took to X to firmly tie the past to the present.
“Just like the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA collusion hoax,” Zeldin wrote, “the clown show sham impeachment of President Trump in 2019 was a bulls*** show trial of epic proportion to try to take out the duly elected President of the United States.”
Now, with a sympathetic House leadership and fresh ammunition from the intelligence community, Trump is betting that history isn’t written in stone—and that a congressional vote can rub out the stains of his past.