Kevin McCarthy just signed the Suicide Pact with Donald Trump on Impeachment

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So, to quell the former president, McCarthy promised that he would get the House to vote to remove the two impeachments against him, and they would do so before the August recess. And while the agreement may have bought McCarthy some time, as Playbook writes, preventing a public war with the man who almost single-handedly rehabilitated. [McCarthys] entire career and ensured he won the gavel in January, the deal puts McCarthy in a damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t situation.

There are 18 House Republican winners in 2022 in districts won by Joe Biden. Most would be very dissident, electorally, to vote for any resolution that would remove both, at least one, of the impeachments against the former president. Two Republican House members voted to impeach Trump. And without these members, any attempt to remove the impeachments will fail.

So McCarthy is in a bind: Either fulfill his wild promise to the man who helped him secure the speakership to remove his impeachments and increase the risk of losing that speakership or go back on the promise and face the wrath of the leading candidates.

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