Ron DeSantis predicts Donald Trump impeachment over immigration enforcement if House flips

Could 2027 bring a return of the impeachment theatrics that animated President Donald Trump’s first term?

Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks that if Democrats regain control of the House, it’s likely the new majority would “fabricate another impeachment” over the immigration issue “to be able to throw sand in the gears to prevent the President from being able to discharge the duties to which he was elected.”

Trump was impeached both in 2019 for alleged obstruction of Congress regarding Ukraine, and in 2021 for allegedly inciting insurrection on Jan. 6, when supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol and delayed the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election. Trump has said Democrats would impeach him again if they flipped Congress.

State Legislatures across the country have taken action to create more aggressively partisan congressional delegations with rare mid-decade redistricting efforts, an effort that may ultimately shape the House more than the campaign cycle itself. Florida will be among states reapportioning House seats, DeSantis has promised, with a Special Session to happen after a Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of minority access districts.

During DeSantis’ interview that aired Sunday night on “Life, Liberty & Levin,” he also ripped “resistance courts” for trying to impede the kind of aggressive immigration enforcement he says voters chose when they elected Trump.

“It isn’t like immigration wasn’t a very big issue in that election. He promised to secure the border, and he promised that he would effectuate the largest deportation effort in American history. That was very clear to anyone who paid even 30 seconds of attention to that campaign. The resistance Judges and the Democrats, basically, don’t want to honor the people’s will.”

Also during Sunday’s segment, DeSantis addressed what he called the “suicidal” tendency to allow immigration from leaders who “want to bring Islamism to America to be able to impose that on their societies.”

“To bring people in from foreign countries, they’ve got to be compatible with the society they’re coming in, our society, and they’ve got to want to be an American,” DeSantis said.

The Governor hopes the Legislature will give him more authority to designate groups as being linked to terrorism, as he has with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

“The reality is, all those people you’re talking about, many of them are getting funding from some of those groups. And we’re going to use all the tools at our disposal to stop it in Florida,” DeSantis said.