Google observed that the Washington Post’s exclusive report published late on Thursday night, which alleged that the Smithsonian Institution had attempted to rewrite history “following pressure from the White House,” had become a “highly cited” dispatch overnight. And it most certainly was.
The report indicated that an exhibit on the history of presidential impeachments had been adulterated after Trump administration officials leaned on the museum to erase Trump’s name from the ignominious list of impeached presidents. The feature in question opened in the year 2000, displaying artifacts from Andrew Johnson’s 1868 case, the 1999 investigation into Bill Clinton, and the Watergate scandal. Since September 2021, it had also featured a “temporary label” referencing Donald Trump’s two impeachments. But, according to “a person familiar with the exhibit plans,” the label was withdrawn amid a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents over broader questions about the institution’s political neutrality.
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