House Judiciary Chair just confirmed that the chamber is formally moving to expunge President Trump’s first impeachment — the Ukraine phone call one. You remember. The “perfect phone call.” The one that launched a thousand breathless CNN chyrons and turned Adam Schiff into a cable news celebrity for approximately fifteen minutes. That impeachment is about to be wiped from the congressional record like it never happened.
Because it never should have.
For those of you who’ve blocked out the trauma of 2019 — understandable — here’s a quick refresher. Trump called the president of Ukraine. They talked. Democrats claimed Trump was running some kind of mob shakedown operation, demanding Ukraine investigate the Bidens in exchange for military aid. Adam Schiff went on television and literally made up a fake version of the phone call transcript, performing it dramatically for the cameras like he was auditioning for community theater.
Then they impeached a sitting president over it.
The whole circus was built on an “anonymous whistleblower” who — surprise, surprise — turned out to have documented political bias, coordinated with Schiff’s staff before filing the complaint, and has since been the subject of a reopened FBI investigation. The foundation of the entire impeachment was a rigged game from day one, and now the receipts are coming out faster than Schiff can run from reporters.
(Which, to be fair, is pretty fast. The man has had practice.)
Now the House is going to officially erase it. Expunge it. Wipe it from the record. As if Nancy Pelosi never ripped up that speech. As if Schiff never shed those crocodile tears on the House floor. As if Jerry Nadler never waddled up to the podium to deliver his grave pronouncements about “the integrity of our democracy.”
Every Democrat who voted for that impeachment gets to wake up tomorrow knowing that their crowning legislative achievement is being scraped off the historical record like a bumper sticker off a used car.
Think about what they sacrificed for this. They burned months of legislative time. They consumed every ounce of political oxygen in Washington. They could have been passing infrastructure bills, addressing the border, doing literally anything productive. Instead, they bet the entire farm on removing Trump from office over a phone call — and they lost.
Trump wasn’t removed. He ran again. He won again. And now the impeachment itself is being erased.
That’s not just losing. That’s losing so completely that the scoreboard gets taken down.
Adam Schiff — who rode the impeachment wave all the way to a Senate seat in California — is going to have to sit there and watch this happen. The man who stood in front of cameras for months swearing he had “direct evidence” of wrongdoing is now a Senator whose signature accomplishment is about to be officially declared null and void by the very chamber that produced it.
Hey Adam — was it worth it?
And we can’t forget the media’s role in this circus. Every major network covered the impeachment hearings like it was the moon landing. MSNBC ran countdown clocks. CNN had “IMPEACHMENT” branded across every graphic for months. The New York Times ran editorials about how this was “the most important constitutional moment of our generation.”
It wasn’t. It was a political hit job dressed up in constitutional language, and now the House is taking it out behind the barn.
The beautiful irony is that Democrats impeached Trump to stop him. To end his political career. To make sure he never held office again. Instead, it backfired so spectacularly that he’s sitting in the Oval Office right now, more powerful than ever, while the impeachment gets memory-holed and the people who engineered it are either under investigation, irrelevant, or both.
Nancy Pelosi handed out commemorative pens when she signed the articles of impeachment. Custom pens. In a little ceremony. She was so proud of herself that she turned it into a photo op.
Those pens belong in a museum now — right next to the participation trophies.
When this expungement goes through, the congressional record will reflect what we’ve known all along: the first Trump impeachment was a partisan stunt with no legal basis, built on fabricated evidence, pushed by a compromised whistleblower, and championed by politicians who cared more about destroying one man than governing a country.
The “perfect phone call” finally gets its vindication. And every Democrat who voted yes gets to explain to their constituents why they wasted everyone’s time on an impeachment that history is about to forget.
Welcome to the consequences of being wrong about everything, all the time.
