References to Trump's impeachments are reinstalled at Smithsonian exhibit -- with some slight but crucial changes

References to Trump’s impeachments are reinstalled at Smithsonian exhibit
— with some slight but crucial changes

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/smithsonian-trump-impeachment-exhibit


Michael Williams August 8, 2025




............The removal of the placard prompted public outcry against the museum and claims it was capitulating to Trump. The president earlier this year signed an executive order accusing the museum of promoting a “divisive” ideology and directing it to make changes to its programming. ................................



Some slight, but significant, changes were made to the placard’s text.

One portion which had previously described Trump’s “solicitation of foreign influence in the 2020 presidential election and defiance of Congressional subpoenas” as the impetus for his first impeachment now includes the word “alleged.”

A description of his second impeachment now omits a claim that Trump made repeated “false statements” challenging his loss in the 2020 election, as well as a quote from the impeachment article accusing Trump of delivering a speech that “encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol.”

Trump was the third American president to be impeached and the only one to be impeached twice. In 2019 he was impeached on charges alleging he unlawfully solicited Ukraine to influence the 2020 presidential election, and in 2021 he was impeached for his actions related to the insurrection at the US Capitol that year. ....................


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