Trump Knows Congress Has Power. He Wants It Used for Himself.

The push to erase his impeachments asks the people’s branch to become the president’s personal record-cleaning service.

He Knows Congress Has Power

Donald Trump is asking the House of Representatives to do something no vote can actually accomplish: make his two impeachments disappear.

Trump and his allies are pressing House Republicans to advance a resolution declaring those impeachments expunged, as though the articles had never passed. The votes would still exist. The Se…