Trump warns he could probe Clinton, Obama and Biden if Democrats try a third impeachment

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, October 18, 2026

President Donald Trump said he could pursue criminal cases or wreck the reputations of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden if Democrats try to impeach him a third time.

In an interview with Rob Finnerty on Newsmax’s Finnerty, Trump said his administration holds extensive material on the three former officials and that he had passed up earlier chances to use it. The Jerusalem Post reported the remarks and noted he had struck a similar tone at an Oval Office event on October 7.

Trump framed any future move as a response, not an opening shot. He said he had stayed his hand out of respect for the office. He also left little doubt about the scale of what he claims to hold.

On the former secretary of state, he was blunt.

"I could have done numbers on Hillary Clinton,"

Trump told Finnerty. He expanded the list in the next breath.

"I could have done numbers on Bill Clinton. I do like Bill Clinton. I could have done numbers on Barack Hussein Obama. Still could, I still could, I could do big numbers if I wanted to."

He defined what “numbers” meant. Criminal pursuit was on the table. So was public release of material that, in his words, could ruin reputations. That history still shadows the Clintons in other public fights, including Trump’s push for Supreme Court review of a dismissed suit tied to 2016 Russia claims.

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He repeated the point for emphasis.

"I'm talking about go after them criminally, or I could have done something having to do with their reputations [and] destroyed their reputations,"

Trump said the files are not thin. He named the targets directly.

"We have a lot of information about Hillary. We have a lot of information about Barack Hussein Obama. We have a lot of information on Sleepy Joe Biden."

Finnerty asked whether he planned to act. Trump did not vow an immediate campaign. He conditioned it on Democratic behavior.

"Well, I mean, I guess not. Probably not. But I think if they impeach me again, you know, again,"

Finnerty cut in that things could get ugly. Trump did not disagree with the premise. He argued the only impeachment ground Democrats could invent would be that he is making the country strong, and he cast himself as practiced at beating the process.

"And I [have] become good at anti-impeachment. I call it the anti-impeachment movement," he said. He also floated a political upside for Republicans if Democrats overplay the same hand a third time.

Two prior impeachments, two Senate acquittals

Trump was impeached twice in his first term. The Senate acquitted him both times. That record is the backdrop for any third try, and it is why his conditional warning carries weight with voters who already watched years of investigations fail to remove him.

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On October 7 in the Oval Office, he made a parallel case. He said he had declined to chase political opponents because he respected the presidency. The Newsmax interview put the same idea in sharper form: restraint first, reciprocity if Democrats move again.

He even separated Bill Clinton from the others with a personal aside, “I do like Bill Clinton”, while still saying he could have “done numbers” on him. Bill Clinton’s own record on power and limits has drawn fresh notice in recent coverage, from his admission he wanted to ban the White House press corps to other family-tied controversies.

House Democrats have not closed the door

Democratic leaders have not locked in a third impeachment drive. They also have not ruled one out. Last month, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats had neither rejected nor committed to another effort. House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar has said impeachment is not among the party’s top priorities.

That ambiguity matters. Democrats are working to retake Congress in the November 3 midterm elections. If they flip the House, oversight and investigations become easier to launch. Trump’s message treats that possibility as the trigger, not a mystery.

He offered no documents, names of prosecutors, or exhibit list in the interview. The claim stands as his assertion that the administration already possesses the material. Voters can weigh that against a decade of partisan lawfare and decide who has been playing by a double standard.

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Midterms raise the stakes for another round

Control of the House after November 3 is the practical hinge. A Democratic majority could open new inquiries even if party leaders call impeachment a lower-tier goal today. Jeffries’s refusal to take it off the table keeps the option alive for activists who want a third vote more than a governing agenda.

Trump’s counter is straightforward. He says he already beat two impeachments. He says he built an “anti-impeachment” playbook. And he says the same figures who drove earlier fights remain exposed if the cycle restarts. The Clinton name still surfaces in unrelated legal and campus fights as well, including a Cornell assault case that drew in Bill Clinton family ties.

For now, Trump says he is not launching the cases. He says he probably will not, unless Democrats impeach him again. That is a clear line, delivered on a national cable interview and echoed from the Oval Office days earlier.

Accountability cannot be a one-way street. If Democrats reach for a third impeachment as politics by other means, they should expect the records they long treated as off-limits to finally face daylight.

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