Fearing a new “impeachment”, Trump mobilizes the Republicans: “If we don't win the election, they will find a reason”
Donald Trump. Photo: Francis Chung / INSTARimages.com – INSTAR Images / Profimedia
President Donald Trump spoke to House Republicans for more than an hour Tuesday in a meeting at the Kennedy Center, touching on a wide range of topics, including tax and health care policy, the participation of transgender athletes in women's sports, the border situation and crime, according to NBC News.
During the meeting, the Republican president of the USA urged his party to mobilize to win the mid-term elections on November 3, 2026, saying that otherwise he risks going through a new “impeachment” procedure.
“You've got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be… I mean, they're going to find a reason to impeach me,” Donald Trump warned. “I will be impeached,” the Republican leader added.
Trump, twice impeached by the House
Donald Trump is the only president in the history of the United States to have been impeached by the House of Representatives twice, but neither of the proceedings resulted in his removal from office.
In January 2021, a few days before officially ending his first presidential term, the House of Representatives impeached him for “incitement to insurrection” after the violence at the Capitol. Later, the Senate acquitted him.
In December 2019, the House of Representatives impeached him for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, amid allegations that he used government leverage to solicit Ukraine's involvement in the US election campaign through investigations to discredit his Democratic political rivals, according to The New York Times. Trump was acquitted by the Senate then as well.
Before Trump, only two presidents had been impeached by the House of Representatives, Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. Both were acquitted by the Senate, where a two-thirds majority is needed for conviction and, by default, removal from office.
