But that’s just one of the president’s problems over the last two years of his term.
He’ll soon be spending much of his time fending off impeachment efforts, predicts Jenna Ellis, an American Family Radio host and former Trump legal advisor.
But it won’t be only Trump in the crosshairs. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and potentially Vice President JD Vance, should prepare themselves, too, Ellis told her AFR audience Wednesday morning.
“Democrats are going to start filing impeachments because now, with a likely Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, only two people stand in the way of Democrats getting control of the White House as well,” Ellis said.
Jeffries on Tuesday night stopped short of promising a third impeachment effort. He has previously said Democrats would investigate the Trump administration's dealings with corporate executives, including those who have donated heavily to his various campaigns and projects.
A Democrat-led House filed articles of impeachment against Trump twice during his first term from 2016-2020, but each time a Republican-led Senate failed to convict.
Other Democrats, impeachment eager in brief comments, seemed not to focus gas and brief prices.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, expected to be the chair of the House Oversight Committee, had two words for Republicans: “Lawyer up.”
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon needed only half of those words: “Subpoenas,” he wrote.
Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois rattled off a long list of Trump administration officials.
“Noem, Markwayne, Miller, Homan, Bovino, what’s up? Clear your schedule,” she wrote.
Democrats would require 67 Senate votes to convict and remove Trump or anyone else. The Senate could also vote to bar impeached individuals from holding future federal offices.
Present vote totals give them 54 Senate seats with Mississippi and Alaska still in play.
Getting 67 votes is not a stretch, Ellis said, because of division between “establishment” Republicans and Trump loyalist “MAGA” Republicans.
“If they impeach and have enough of the GOP establishment to actually result in convictions in the Senate … that is not outside the realm of possibility and is something that I actually think could happen because D.C. is this corrupt,” Ellis said.
An impeachment scenario would spawn power-brokering and negotiations behind the scenes.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and right now, Trump and his administration is the enemy not only of Democrats and socialists but also the establishment GOP,” Ellis said.
