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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order commuting sentences for people convicted of Jan. 6 offenses in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP)
An X account with a history of sharing false and misleading claims based this claim on unattributed comments it shared in a thread.
Republican majorities control both houses of Congress.
Although at least one organization has initiated a push to impeach President Donald Trump, no credible reporting shows it would gain enough traction with House or Senate Republicans to succeed.
The Republican-controlled Congress has no plans to impeach newly returned President Donald Trump, despite what one viral X post claimed.?
"The U.S. Senate has the votes to remove Trump from office if the House votes to impeach," an X account titled PoliticsVideoChannel said in a Jan. 22 post.?
The account claimed that its operators had talked to 25 Republican U.S. senators who were willing to convict Trump over his pardons for people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.?
The post had been shared more than 17,000 times and viewed more than 14 million times as of Jan. 24.
The thread included quotes that it claims were from a group of senators, but the account provided no proof of their authenticity. We contacted the account through direct messages and did not receive a reply.?
There are no credible news stories that support the account’s claims. We contacted senators in Republican leadership for comment but received no replies by deadline.?
Trump on Jan. 20, his first day back in office, pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 1,500 people convicted of crimes over the Capitol attack. Although some Republicans have criticized the sweeping clemency, we found no examples of Senate Republicans endorsing a Trump impeachment.?
Some Republicans bristled at the choice to pardon people who violently assaulted police officers. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said people who assaulted officers "should do the time," Politico reported.?
Politico reported that Sens. Thom Thillis, R-N.C., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, also expressed disappointment in Trump’s decision. Cassidy, Murkowski and Collins were among seven Republicans who voted in 2021 to convict Trump over his role in the Capitol uprising.
Newsweek reported on one organization’s push for another Trump impeachment, but we see no signs Republicans will support that.
The Democratic-led House impeached Trump twice during his first term: first after he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden and his son, and again on a charge of inciting an insurrection at the Capitol. The Senate acquitted him both times.?
Other social media posts in the days since Trump’s inauguration have made unsubstantiated claims of a growing impeachment movement. X posts claiming that Reps. Alexandria Ocaso-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., filed articles of impeachment against Trump emerged Jan. 24. But the pair did no such thing.?
We found no examples of federal officeholders from either party saying Trump’s pardons were grounds for impeachment. With Republicans controlling the House, it’s almost certain an impeachment effort would fail in the chamber.
Twenty Republican senators would need to side with all Democrats to convict Trump on impeachment charges. All but six of the 43 senators who voted against convicting Trump in 2021 are still in office, and three of the seven Republicans who voted to convict him are in office. If history is any indication, there is no support in the conference to convict Trump.?
The X account that posted the claim, Politics Video, and its associated website, have a history of making false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims that are critical of Trump and Republicans.
The account speculated at least eight times in January that the majority-Republican Congress might impeach Trump. The posts similarly used purported anonymous sources that aren’t found in any credible reporting.?
In December, the account claimed that then-Vice President Kamala Harris is "legally allowed to reject the certification of Trump’s election because of January 6." That’s not true; the vice president’s role in certifying an election is purely ministerial.
The X account was created in February 2016, and its first public post is from December 2017. A 2020 International Business Times India article used Twitter application programming interface tools to determine that before the 2016 election, the same account, under a different username, was called CNN Breaking News, and it posted fake news and misleading information from a conservative perspective.
A 2024 FactCheck.org article found that the Politics Video Channel website was associated with an Australian email address.
An X post said the Senate "has the votes to remove Trump from office if the House votes to impeach."
There’s no evidence of that, and the account has a history of false and misleading claims. Republican senators have mostly supported Trump’s presidency and none have said they support impeachment for any new offense.
We rate the claim False.
PoliticsVideoChannel, X post, Jan. 22, 2025
The White House, Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021, Jan. 20, 2025
Politico, GOP senators criticize Trump over pardoning violent Jan. 6 rioters, Jan. 21, 2025
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PolitiFact, Timeline: The Trump impeachment inquiry, Oct. 3, 2019
PolitiFact, The House impeached Donald Trump over his speech before the Capitol attack. Here’s what happens next, Jan. 13, 2025
X post, Jan. 24, 2025
politicsvideochannel.com, accessed Jan. 24, 2025
PoliticsVideoChannel, X post, Jan. 23, 2025
PoliticsVideoChannel, X post, Jan. 22, 2025
PoliticsVideoChannel, X post, Jan. 22, 2025
PoliticsVideoChannel, X post, Dec. 27, 2025
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FactCheck.org, Posts Misrepresent Saudi Prince's Comment on Investment in Kushner Fund, Feb. 9, 2024
Newsweek, Donald Trump Impeachment Efforts Ramp Up, Jan. 24, 2025
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