House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned Fox News viewers on Tuesday that Congress will hold Donald Trump accountable for his unprecedented corruption and abuses of power if Democrats win control of the House in next year’s midterm elections.
In an appearance on Fox News, Johnson told host Laura Ingraham that Democrats will move to impeach Trump if the party wins the House majority.
“We’re gonna win the midterms,” Johnson told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “Absolutely. We’re gonna have a big victory. And I think we can expand that majority so we can keep going. We have to give President Trump four years and not two. Imagine if the Democrats took over the House… they’d impeach him.”
Trump was impeached twice by the House in his first term. His first impeachment was for withholding foreign aid from Ukraine in exchange for dirt on Joe Biden and his family. The second impeachment was related to Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Democrats are already accusing Trump of committing impeachable offenses in his second term.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who led House Democrats’ impeachment trial against Trump in 2019, told a New York outlet that Trump has already committed “dozens of impeachable offenses” less than a month after returning to office,
“He’s violating the Constitution right, left, and center. The reality is the Republicans control the House and they control the Senate,” Goldman said. “And not only are they in control in the majority, and therefore they would have to lead any kind of impeachment investigation, but they have demonstrated such a lack of spine and will and determination to even just uphold their own power. They’re giving away their own authority in Congress and just turning it over to Donald Trump.”
Since returning to office, Trump has continued selling access to himself through his meme coin, and his family has been securing deals overseas, mainly in the Middle East, raising concerns that American foreign policy could be shaped around his family’s business interests. In the previous Congress, Republicans launched a failed impeachment investigation of Joe Biden over allegations that he used his position as Vice President in the Obama administration to enrich his family. Trump has also accepted a $400 million private plane from Qatar to be used as Air Force One, after which it will be transferred to his presidential library. Last month, Trump publicly pressured Attorney General Pam Bondi to charge his adversaries; days later, the DOJ indicted former FBI Director James Comey.
Republicans in Congress have defended and cheered Trump’s blatant corruption and abuse of power as experts warn that their unwillingness to hold him accountable sets a bad precedent.
“If Trump does go scot free, untouched by either a third impeachment or criminal prosecution, it will be an extraordinary miscarriage of justice,” New York Times’ Thomas Edsall wrote. “Even so, if he is allowed to retire peacefully to enjoy his cryptocurrency wealth, his presidency will still go down in history as the embodiment of injustice, malfeasance, cruelty and transgression.”
