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Nicole Malliotakis Is One of Twelve Members of Congress Trying to Erase Trump's January 6 Impeachment. Eleven Days Later She Said the Rioters Should Serve Their Time.

On January 9, 2025, Malliotakis signed on to a resolution expunging the impeachment of Trump for inciting the Capitol attack. On January 21 she went on CNN and said the people who assaulted police that day 'do need to serve the time.'

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There are 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Twelve of them put their names on a resolution to expunge Donald Trump's impeachment for inciting the attack on the Capitol — to strike it from the record as though the House never voted on it.

Nicole Malliotakis is one of the twelve.

She is not a backbench bomb-thrower. She represents Staten Island and south Brooklyn, until recently served as vice chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, and is scored as a centrist by GovTrack based on her legislative record. This is the moderate.

The resolutions

Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced H.Res.25 on January 9, 2025 — the opening days of the new Congress. Its entire purpose is to expunge the January 13, 2021 impeachment of Donald Trump, the one for incitement of insurrection. She filed H.Res.24 the same day to expunge his first impeachment.

Eleven members signed on as cosponsors. Malliotakis signed both on day one.

The full list of names on the January 6 expungement, besides Greene and Malliotakis: Mary Miller, Randy Weber, Mike Collins, Eli Crane, James Moylan, Troy Nehls, Anna Paulina Luna, Jefferson Van Drew, Diana Harshbarger and Elise Stefanik.

That's the company. Twelve people out of 435.

What she said eleven days later

On January 20, 2025, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 January 6 defendants, including people convicted of assaulting police officers.

The next day, Malliotakis went on CNN. Boris Sanchez read her own tweet from January 6, 2021 back to her — the one she posted after Capitol Police moved her to a secure location: "Everyone who is responsible for this violence and lawlessness must stop. This is absolutely unacceptable and un-American." Then he asked whether Trump did the right thing pardoning rioters who assaulted police.

Her answer, as she gave it:

"Well, I do have an issue with those who assaulted police officers. And I think that those do need to serve the time. That is unacceptable."

And when Sanchez asked what her message was to the Capitol Police officers who were injured that day:

"Certainly I stand with our Capitol Police and all our law enforcement. I'm very proud to be one of the few individuals here in Congress that actually in the past has received the endorsement of the Capitol Police union, and we have to support our law enforcement. We need to hold those who injure them and kill them accountable."

Eleven days earlier she had signed her name to a document whose only purpose is to erase the one time Congress held the man at the top of that day accountable.

About 140 police officers were injured on January 6.

This is not one bad week

The expungement signature is the end of a five-year line, not a departure from it. Malliotakis has voted against every mechanism anyone proposed for establishing what happened that day:

January 6, 2021 — after the Capitol was cleared, she voted to reject Arizona's electoral votes. She had told a radio show the day before, "I don't see a situation in which I don't object to at least some of these states."
January 7, 2021 — the morning after the riot, she voted to reject Pennsylvania's too, telling Fox News there were "a number of irregularities, a number of changes made, that many people believe led to fraud."
January 13, 2021 — voted against impeachment. She was the only member of Brooklyn's congressional delegation to vote no.
May 19, 2021 — voted against creating an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the attack, the kind of body used after 9/11.
June 30, 2021 — voted against creating the select committee that ended up doing the investigating instead.
January 9, 2025 — signed on to erase the impeachment from the record.

Every door: closed. No commission, no committee, no impeachment, and now no record of the impeachment.

Republican Accountability, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, grades her democracy record "F" — "Very Poor."

The two Malliotakises

She wants both of these things to be true at once, and they can't be.

In January 2026 she put out a press release announcing federal money she'd secured for the NYPD, and said: "I will always support our brave men and women in law enforcement and remain committed to ensuring they have the tools and resources they need to do their jobs safely and effectively."

That's the version her district sees — cameras, license plate readers, vests for the K-9 unit, $9 million for the NYPD over five years. It's real, and she's earned the credit she takes for it.

Then there's the version in the Congressional Record: a name on a resolution to unwrite the House's only formal finding that the president bore responsibility for the day 140 officers were hurt defending the building she works in.

She was there. Capitol Police moved her to safety. She tweeted that it was "absolutely unacceptable and un-American." Then she voted against every attempt to find out how it happened, and four years later signed her name to a piece of paper saying the impeachment should never have existed.

To be fair to her: she did break with Trump on the pardons, and she said it on camera on a national network, which most of her conference would not do. It just makes the signature harder to explain, not easier. If the people who beat police officers should serve their time, then the finding that the president incited them belongs in the record — not scrubbed out of it.

The bottom line

H.Res.24 and H.Res.25 went to the Judiciary Committee in January 2025 and have not moved since. They will probably never get a vote. That's not really the point.

Twelve members of Congress decided this was worth signing. Nicole Malliotakis — the moderate, the Problem Solvers vice chair, the one who wouldn't hold an in-person town hall while constituents rallied outside her office — was one of them, on day one, before anyone asked.

Trump's own administration is now trying to move nearly $1.8 billion of public money toward paying January 6 defendants. The record of what happened is the only thing standing in the way of the story being rewritten entirely. Malliotakis put her name on erasing part of it.