Trump Demands Congress Expel Raskin Over Impeachment Threat

It was the middle of the night when President Trump decided he had something to say about Jamie Raskin. Not a policy point. Not a bill. Just pure, hot grievance about a Maryland congressman who keeps reminding people that impeachment is still a word in the dictionary. And so, at an hour when most 79-year-olds are asleep, Trump fired off a 195-word post on Truth Social and topped it with three words in all caps: EXPEL THE BUM.

For anyone who has watched this president operate, the move was familiar. Trump shared a post from Fox News host Mark Levin that called on House Republicans to throw Raskin out of Congress. Then he piled on with his own rant. The late-night blast wasn't really about Levin, though. It was about the one thing Trump still can't seem to let go of: the fact that the House impeached him twice, and the records say so in black and white.

What Trump Actually Wrote

The post itself reads like a man arguing with a ghost. Trump called Raskin "a Loser in Life" and accused him of working "endlessly during my First Term to impeach me, and failed miserably, wasting the Country's money, time, and effort." He claimed Raskin would "guaranteed be trying to do it again," then added the kicker: "If Biden didn't give him a pardon, he'd be in jail right now!"

That last line matters, and we'll get to why. But first, notice the shape of the thing. Trump isn't responding to anything Raskin did this week. He's responding to a fear. Raskin has spent months hinting that if Democrats win back the House in the midterms, impeachment proceedings are coming. Trump read that, and instead of brushing it off, he wanted the man removed from Congress entirely. There's a real difference between "I disagree with you" and "you should not be allowed to hold office." Trump picked the second one.

Why Raskin, and Why Now

Jamie Raskin is not a random target. He led the House's legal team during Trump's second impeachment in 2021, the one tied to January 6. He also sat on the committee that investigated that day, which Trump loves to call the "Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs." In other words, Raskin is the human face of the thing Trump hates most. So when Levin floated the idea of expelling him, Trump didn't need a reason in the news. The grievance was already loaded.

In Trump's telling, Raskin has "Trump Derangement Syndrome." He wrote that "something should be done about people like this who do bad things, but always come up on the short end because of their illegal or unscrupulous behavior." Read that twice. The president of the United States is suggesting "something should be done" about a sitting member of Congress whose main offense is voting and speaking against him. That's not a normal sentence for a president to type, no matter who's in office.

The Quiet Plan to Erase His Impeachments

Here's the part that ties everything together. On the same night Trump was raging at Raskin, word leaked that he and his allies are working on a plan to "expunge" his two impeachments from the congressional record. The idea is a resolution that would treat the 2019 and 2021 impeachments as if they never passed the House at all. Trump told reporters flatly: "It should be done because I did nothing wrong. It was a rigged deal, it was a whole rigged situation."

There's just one problem with the expunge plan. The Constitution has no button for it. Legal experts say there is simply no mechanism to undo an impeachment once the House votes. You can pass a resolution that says "never mind," but it carries no legal weight. The historical fact stays put. Trump was impeached in 2019 over the Ukraine call and again in 2021 over January 6. A vote can't make those dates disappear from the record any more than you can un-ring a bell.

Mike Johnson Is Open to It

So why bother with something that does nothing legally? Because it's symbolic, and symbols matter to Trump. The plan picked up steam in April after the administration released new documents from his first impeachment that MAGA supporters claimed cast doubt on the witnesses. California Representative Darrell Issa then introduced legislation to have the impeachments "expunged as if such Articles had never passed the full House." Issa says Trump was "wrongfully accused."

House Speaker Mike Johnson is on board too. He told reporters that "the more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments" and called them "a hyper-partisan attack job." Johnson admitted wiping the record was "not an order of first priority," but he called it a priority all the same. The catch is timing. A measure like this likely wouldn't come up until after the midterms, which means Republicans would be forcing themselves to relive Trump's worst chapters right when voters are deciding their fate.

The Pardon Detail Trump Keeps Bringing Up

Remember Trump's claim that Raskin would "be in jail right now" without a pardon? Here's the backstory. In early 2025, before leaving office, Joe Biden granted Raskin a preemptive pardon, along with all the members and staffers of the House Judiciary Committee. The reason was straightforward. Biden wanted to shield them from any retaliation by the incoming Trump administration over their roles in the second impeachment trial.

So when Trump says Raskin belongs in jail, he's not pointing to a charge or a case. There isn't one. He's pointing to the existence of a pardon and treating it like a confession. That's a slick rhetorical trick, but it falls apart the second you ask the obvious question: in jail for what, exactly? A pardon for doing your job as a congressman isn't proof of a crime. It's proof somebody was worried about exactly the kind of post Trump just wrote.

The Shot at Al Green

Raskin wasn't the only Democrat who caught a stray. In the same post, Trump went after longtime Texas Congressman Al Green, calling him "a pathetic soul" who "just lost his race in a landslide to an unknown candidate." Green, one of the loudest voices for impeachment over the years, lost his seat in a primary last month. Trump even threw in that the unknown candidate had "more talent than Raskin," which is a strange way to insult two people in one breath.

Here's the irony. Even on his way out, Green wasn't backing down. On June 7, he announced that Congressman Brad Sherman would join him in drafting new articles of impeachment. By June 12, the same day Trump was posting, Sherman had started circulating an article among colleagues. "I'm not going to be deterred," Sherman said. Green framed it as a matter of obstruction of justice. So while Trump was busy declaring victory over these guys, they were quietly writing the next round.

How Rare an Expulsion Really Is

Let's deal with the actual demand, because "EXPEL THE BUM" sounds simple until you read the rules. Kicking a member out of Congress takes a two-thirds vote in their chamber. That's a high bar on purpose. Since the Civil War, it has happened only three times. The most recent was New York Republican George Santos, booted in December 2023 after a pile of fraud and ethics scandals, plus a federal indictment.

Notice the pattern there. Expulsion has been reserved for serious misconduct, usually criminal. Nobody gets removed for being annoying to the president or for voting the wrong way. Raskin hasn't been charged with anything. The idea that two-thirds of the House would vote to expel a member for talking about impeachment isn't just unlikely, it runs against the entire history of how the power has been used. Trump's demand is loud, but it's parked in a place where it can't actually go anywhere.

Raskin Fires Back

Raskin didn't stay quiet. Asked about the rant in a TV interview, he suggested Trump is "having nightmare flashbacks about impeachment." Then he delivered the line that pretty much sums up the whole episode: "There's a very easy way to not get impeached: Stop committing impeachable offenses." It's a clean punch, and it lands because it points at the real issue. You can't expunge your way out of the future.

The bigger picture is hard to miss. Democrats are feeling good about the midterms, and several are openly preparing for impeachment if they win the House. One representative told reporters the party should "build up the case" and run "shadow hearings" so they're ready to move in January. Another said the push would be "overwhelming" if they retake control. That's the storm Trump sees coming, and his answer was a midnight post, a wish to erase the past, and three capitalized words about a man he can't stop thinking about.

You can try to expel the bum. You can try to expunge the record. But the simplest fact stands: he was impeached twice, the dates are written down, and the people he's yelling at are already drafting the next article.