California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa said he is pressing ahead to have President Donald Trump's two impeachments expunged, arguing Democrats wouldn't have voted so easily had the evidence of falsehoods been public.

“I intend on doing just that, making sure that we recognize and validate that false information and withheld information caused a Congress to think they could vote to impeach him,” Issa told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Monday. “Knowing what we know now, even many of the Democrats would have had a much harder time facing the voters, knowing that they had willfully used false information.”

Trump is discussing plans to seek to have Congress pass a resolution to expunge both of his impeachments from his first term and his allies want to help him do so. Trump told the Wall Street Journal on June 11 that the expunging “should be done because I did nothing wrong.”

In 2019, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. These charges were based on his alleged withholding of military aid to Ukraine to pressure the country into investigating Joe Biden. 

Trump was impeached a second time in February 2021 on an article of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

In both impeachments, the Senate fell short of the two-thirds majority necessary to convict Trump.

Issa, who represents San Diego and Riverside counties, is a former U.S. Army Captain and successful businessman. He stands with other congressional leaders who agree with expunging the Trump impeachment votes. 

Mike Johnson, R-La., told the Wall Street Journal that Trump’s impeachments should be erased.

"I think it makes a lot of sense. The more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments," Johnson told the Journal. "We were saying it at the time, now we know. And they make a very compelling case that it should be expunged from the record, because it was a hyperpartisan attack job."