Democratic strategist James Carville predicts that Donald Trump’s presidency could end early if the Democrats sweep the midterm elections.
In an expletive-laden video on the Politicon YouTube channel posted earlier this week, Carville said if the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, they will launch investigations into Trump and his family, which will eventually lead to the president’s resignation.
“The Democrats are going to investigate you to no end,” Carville said. “Then they’re going to go after your stupid, jacka** kids and their spouses.”
Carville did not explain for which potential offenses Trump and his family may be investigated. But he did warn that the president could commit war crimes in the conflict against Iran as it continues.
“When it comes to the stuff you’re doing in Iran, I got to tell you, you’re getting really, really, really, close to war crimes here. You’re probably gonna cross the line,” Carville said.
A report from several human rights groups found that from the start of the conflict on February 28 to March 23, nearly 1,500 civilians, including at least 217 children, were killed by the US-Israeli airstrikes in Iran.
Carville is best known for helping Bill Clinton win the presidency in 1992. He is a fervent critic of Trump.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle bashed Carville when reached for comment on the Democratic strategist’s predictions, telling The Independent, “James Carville is a stone-cold loser who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
Carville is confident a Democratic-controlled House would impeach Trump. Trump was impeached twice during his first term when Democrats controlled the lower chamber— in 2019 for allegedly pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political opponent Joe Biden and in 2021 over claims he incited the January 6 Capitol riot. The Senate acquitted him both times.
Carville believes the Senate could convict Trump if he’s impeached by the House during his second term.
“Don’t be surprised if the number 67 doesn’t get real because…these Republican senators, they can’t stand you,” Carville said, referring to the two-thirds vote needed to convict. The Democratic strategist said Senate Republicans support Trump now “because of the politics back in their states, but it’s going to be apparent to them that you’re a loser.”
Carville said Trump will feel the pressure from the congressional investigations, along with civil cases that could be brought against him, and that, about a year from now, he will resign from office.
“You’re going to figure out, ‘I got to get the hell out of here.’ And you’re going to cut a deal, and you’re going to resign,” the Democratic strategist said.
Carville predicts Vice President JD Vance, who he said would then take Trump’s place in the Oval Office, will pardon Trump for any federal crimes.
In January, Trump warned Republicans at a retreat in Washington, “You got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be — I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me.”
