BTW, there is no such House rule.
It's a GOP conference rule.
You sound like Dan Akroid in Trading Places. "It wasn't heroin! It was Angel Dust, PCP!"
It's still a rule, and there's no way they change it for Trump. He would be destroyed in the vote anyway, so it won't even be pursued. This is just a ruse by his supporters to act like it could even happen, which it can't. They live in a fantasy world, not reality.