Steve Bannon Warns of Potential Third Donald Trump Impeachment

Democrats will move to impeach President-elect Donald Trump for a third time if they have control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm election, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon warned on Friday.

Trump was elected to a second term in a decisive victory against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, earlier this week. While Republicans also took control of the U.S. Senate, the status of the House remains up in the air, although the GOP currently looks favored to retain its grip on the chamber.

However, Democrats may have a better chance of capturing control of the House in the 2026 midterms even if they come up short this year. The party that controls the presidency typically loses House seats in midterm elections and the chamber is all but certain to be closely divided in 2026.

During his first stint in the White House, Trump was twice impeached by the Democrat-controlled House, the first time in 2019 over his alleged attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate then-candidate Joe Biden and the second in January 2021 over his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was acquitted by the Senate in both cases.

Bannon, who served as White House chief strategist in the early months of the first Trump administration, warned during an episode of his War Room podcast on Friday that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, would lead the charge to another Trump impeachment if House control flips during the midterms.

“Hakeem Jeffries could be, will be, the speaker of the House in two years,” Bannon said. “And the first thing he will do in the early days of 2027 is move to impeach Donald Trump. Trust me. They’re gonna put $10 billion in back of him. They have nobody else.”

He continued: “…Hakeem Jeffries is just sitting there, right? He’s ready to go. The [billionaire Democratic donor] Reid Hoffmans of the world are gonna put $10 billion in back of him to win a couple of seats, a handful of seats, in places that are kind of Democratic anyway.”

Bannon, meanwhile, was released from prison last week after serving a four-month sentence for two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a House select committee-issued subpoena investigating the Capitol riot.

Newsweek reached out for comment to the office of Jeffries via email on Friday evening.

Republican attempts to impeach President Joe Biden began almost immediately after he took office, initiated by figures such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and Trump ally.

On Biden’s first full day as president on January 21, 2021, the congresswoman filed articles of impeachment against him, alleging improper involvement with his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, which has been widely contested as there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.

Multiple attempts to impeach Biden failed while Democrats controlled the House and after Republicans took control.

Impeaching and removing a president from office has never been accomplished and remains unlikely unless one party controls both chambers of Congress by wide margins. Trump came the closest of any president to earning the distinction at the conclusion of his second Senate impeachment trial just before he left office.

Despite GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, saying that Trump was “practically and morally responsible for provoking” the Capitol riot, only seven Republicans joined with Democrats in voting to convict Trump, with the 57-43 vote falling 10 votes short of a required two-thirds majority.