President Donald Trump spent Thursday night doing what he does when something gets under his skin. He opened Truth Social and started typing. The target this time was Representative Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat who has spent years signaling that impeachment is back on the table if his party retakes the House. Trump did not just complain about him. He wanted him gone from Congress entirely.
At 7:50 p.m., the 79-year-old president posted a 195-word tirade against Raskin while resharing a message from Fox News host Mark Levin that demanded Republicans move to expel the congressman. It was a busy night of grievance, and it tells you exactly where Trump’s head is at as the midterms get closer.
What Trump Actually Wrote
Trump did not hold back. He called Raskin “a Loser in Life” and accused him of working “endlessly during my First Term to impeach me, and failed miserably, wasting the Country’s money, time, and effort.” He went on to predict that Raskin “will guaranteed be trying to do it again, despite one of the most successful Presidencies in History.”
He kept going. Trump claimed Raskin had been “rebuffed on Impeachment, and many other things,” took a shot at the January 6 committee by calling it “the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs,” and then floated a strange line about jail. “If Biden didn’t give him a pardon, he’d be in jail right now,” Trump wrote, before adding that “something should be done about people like this.” He also accused Raskin of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which at this point is basically a standard line in the playbook.
For the record, there is no public evidence Raskin was facing any charges that a pardon would have covered. But accuracy was not really the point of the post. The point was to put a name on a fear, and the fear is impeachment.
The Mark Levin Connection
Trump did not come up with the expel idea on his own. He shared a post from Levin, who argued that if Raskin keeps trying to “abuse our constitutional system and undermine our electoral process,” then Congress should take “the necessary steps” to expel him. Trump amplified it to his millions of followers, and just like that, a talk-radio talking point became a presidential demand.
What set the two of them off in the first place is not totally clear. There was no single new event that Thursday that explained the timing. Raskin has been hinting at impeachment for a while, and at some point the hinting was apparently enough to trigger a coordinated response. When the most-watched cable host and the president of the United States are both calling for the same Democrat to be thrown out of Congress on the same night, that is not a coincidence.
Raskin Hit Back Fast
Raskin did not wait long to respond. Appearing on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes the same day, he kept it short and sharp. “There’s a very easy way to not get impeached,” he said. “Stop committing impeachable offenses. Stop committing high crimes and misdemeanors.”
He also poked at the obvious. In Raskin’s view, Trump is “having nightmare flashbacks about impeachment,” which is one way of saying the president is the one bringing it up over and over. Raskin would know the subject well. He led the House’s legal effort to impeach Trump back in 2021, so being attacked by name over impeachment is nothing new to him. He has played this part before, and he seems comfortable in it.
The Plan to Erase His Old Impeachments
Here is the part that explains a lot about the timing. The same week, news broke that Trump and his allies are working on a plan to push Congress to wipe his two existing impeachments off the record. We are talking about the 2019 impeachment and the 2021 impeachment, the ones he can never seem to stop thinking about.
Trump explained his reasoning plainly. “It should be done because I did nothing wrong,” he said. “It was a rigged deal, it was a whole rigged situation.” The effort reportedly would not even come up for a vote until after the midterms, and people familiar with the matter say it would be more of a symbolic gesture than anything with teeth.
There is a good reason for that. Experts point out that the Constitution has no mechanism for expunging an impeachment. Once the House impeaches a president, that happened. You cannot pass a resolution that travels back in time and un-impeaches someone. Republican lawmakers have also noted privately that getting enough votes to pass even a symbolic version would be a heavy lift. The push picked up steam in April after the Trump administration released new documents from his first impeachment that his supporters claimed cast doubt on certain witnesses.
The Impeachment Talk Is Already Moving
While Trump fumes about old impeachments, Democrats are quietly drafting new ones. Representative Al Green of Texas and Representative Brad Sherman of California have been working on fresh articles of impeachment. On June 7, Green announced that Sherman would join him in drafting them. On June 12, Sherman started circulating an article among his colleagues.
Sherman made clear he is not backing off. “I’m not going to be deterred,” he said. Green laid out the legal logic behind the move, framing it as the only real path available. “The president will not be indicted while he is in office,” Green said, arguing that “the impeachment process is the one that will bring him before the bar of justice.” Green has centered his case on obstruction of justice.
This is not the first time Green has tried. Back in December 2025, he forced a vote on a resolution to impeach Trump, and the House voted to table it. Part of why it failed is that Democratic leaders voted “present” instead of backing him, which killed the snap effort. So the people circulating these new articles know exactly how hard this is. They are doing it anyway.
Why Expelling Raskin Is Almost Impossible
Let me be honest about the expel demand. It is not going to happen, and the numbers explain why. Kicking a member out of Congress requires a two-thirds vote in either the House or the Senate. That is a massive bar, and it has only cleared three times since the Civil War.
The most recent example was former Representative George Santos of New York, who was expelled in December 2023 after a string of fraud and ethics scandals. And even Santos, who was facing real criminal charges and a damning ethics report, barely got pushed out. Raskin is a sitting Democrat in good standing whose only “offense” is talking about impeachment, which is a constitutional power that Congress actually has. There is no path where two-thirds of the House votes to remove him for saying he might use it.
So the call to expel him reads less like a real legislative plan and more like a way to vent. It is the political version of telling someone to get out of your house when it is not your house and they have every right to be there.
The Bigger Picture Here
Step back and you can see what is going on. Trump is fighting a two-front war over the word impeachment. On one side, he is trying to erase the two times it already happened to him, even though there is no legal way to do that. On the other side, he is attacking individual lawmakers by name and demanding they be thrown out before they can do it a third time.
Democrats are widely expected to retake the House in the midterms. If they do, the math on launching impeachment proceedings changes overnight. Trump knows this, which is probably why a sitting president was up late posting a 195-word attack on one congressman. There is also at least some legal smoke in the background. Former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara told ABC News that “there’s absolutely evidence to begin a case” on obstruction, while adding the honest caveat that “no one knows right now whether there is a provable case.”
For now, nothing has actually happened. Raskin still has his seat. The old impeachments still stand. The new articles are still just paper getting passed around the Capitol. But the Thursday night meltdown showed something real. The word that Trump cannot stand to hear is the word that keeps coming back, and the more people say it, the louder he gets.