Ron DeSantis predicts Donald Trump impeachment over immigration enforcement if House flips – Florida Politics
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.
A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
January 26, 2026 at 10:51 am
Who would have thought that sending untrained thugs into blue states to rough up protesters would be unpopular?
January 26, 2026 at 1:36 pm
DeSantis is being disingenuous, which comes naturally for him. He knows that the main reason Trump won in 2024 was the economy. And while it is true that securing the border was also a big contributing factor, most people thought “securing the border” was somehow different than unleashing ICE on women, children, and protesters — because it is. The key to the mindset of DeSantis is in his accusation: “The resistance Judges and the Democrats, basically, don’t want to honor the people’s will.” To DeSantis, as long as he claims it is “the people’s will,” anything immoral, unethical, and anti-Constitution is just fine.
January 26, 2026 at 2:19 pm
Interesting that nearly every elected R that has commented recently seems to think they’re going to lose badly in the midterms yet they can’t get the orange one to keep his mouth shut because they’re scared of him. Quite the conundrum.
January 26, 2026 at 4:58 pm
No “fabrication” this time Mr. Governor. Your prognostication predicting another impeachment isn’t too far afield. Just like the last time the criminal in the White House is guilty as sin. Hopefully this time the Senate will agree and finally removed from office.
January 27, 2026 at 9:57 pm
The administration crimes committed in Minneapolis are not the only impeachment offenses committed by MAGA’s convicted felon in the Oval Office. I blame the 80 million eligible American voters who didn’t participate in the 2024 election for the huge mess America is experiencing.
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