# Impeach him again > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "Impeach him again," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/impeach-him-again/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *John Kiriakou's warning that if the Democrats win a House majority in 2026 and immediately move to impeach Donald Trump again, they should never win another race, and his prediction that this is exactly what they will do.* - **Scenario:** A Democratic House majority after the 2026 midterms - **What he expects:** An immediate move to impeach - **His verdict:** They should never win another race - **Framing:** As punishment Asked what would follow if the unpopularity of [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump) and the Republican House delivered the Democrats a gain of fifteen, twenty or twenty-five seats in the 2026 midterms, [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) answered with a question of his own: *"And then what? They've got no ideas. How in the world do they intend to govern?"*[1] ## The prediction His co-host supplied the answer, *"Well, they'll impeach"*, and Kiriakou took it up as his own forecast. *"And I'll tell you another thing,"* he said. *"If the Democrats do win a majority in the House, and then they immediately move to impeach Trump again … they should never win another race."*[1] Asked whether he meant that as a punishment, he confirmed it in those terms. [Ted Rall](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ted-rall)'s summary of the party, *"they're utterly worthless"*, follows immediately, and Kiriakou does not dissent from it.[1] ## The argument behind it The warning is the sharp end of a longer complaint Kiriakou made that morning about a party he describes as devoid of ideas. Earlier in the same conversation he had said that the necessity coming out of the State of the Union was for viable third parties, and had endorsed the slow model: regional strength first, built the way the Farmer-Labor and Socialist parties were built, and the way Bernie Sanders began as an independent candidate for mayor of Burlington before decades of work carried him to the national stage.[1] The left in this country, in his account, does not want to do that work. It wants a rally on a pleasant Sunday every four months rather than standing out in the rain every day, and a national strike organised through Facebook groups rather than the organisation of the working class. Impeachment, in that frame, is another substitute for a programme, a thing to do instead of governing. ## See also ## See also - [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) - [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump) - [Ted Rall](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ted-rall) - [Nationalizing the midterms](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/nationalizing-the-midterms) ## Sources 1. SOTU: A Complete Disaster (2026-02-26), at 14:02. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6xUH_kOwo&t=842s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-02-26-deprogram-ted-rall-sotu-a-complete-disaster/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/impeach-him-again/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt