How Trump Is Trying To Clear His Record—Including Impeachments And Hush Money Conviction

BreakingBusinessHow Trump Is Trying To Clear His Record—Including Impeachments And Hush Money ConvictionByAlison Durkee,Forbes Staff. Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news.Follow AuthorJun 12, 2026, 11:31am EDTToplinePresident Donald Trump is pressuring lawmakers to pass a resolution that would clear his two impeachments from his first term, The Wall Street Journal reports, part of a broader effort by the president to clear his legal record—even as he’s never actually faced any penalties for his alleged wrongdoing.President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 6, 2020, one day after the Senate acquitted him on two articles of impeachment.Getty ImagesKey FactsTrump and his allies are discussing pushing GOP lawmakers to pass a resolution that would formally expunge his two impeachments, according to The Journal, which were based on his efforts to solicit help from Ukraine in the 2020 election and for his role in influencing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building.The resolutions would largely be symbolic because the Constitution doesn’t actually specify that impeachments can ever be formally cleared, legal experts noted to The Journal, and would not have any practical effect, since Trump wasn’t actually convicted and removed from office in either case.House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., confirmed to The Journal he had spoken with Trump and legal experts about clearing Trump’s impeachments, and the president—who has previously floated having his impeachments reversed—told the publication the resolution “should be done because I did nothing wrong.”The Journal’s reporting comes as Trump has separately been trying to throw out his 2024 conviction for falsifying business records, which marked his only conviction and criminal trial despite being indicted four times during his years out of office, and did not actually result in any formal penalties.Trump has appealed his conviction in New York state court, whe...