The Democrats do not care if you know their playbook. They won a wave midterm election; they’re coming into D.C. next year with pretty deep majorities, and while they cannot impeach Trump, they will go after his top officials instead. But we know the real target. Take this impeachment push for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, which Thomas Massie took the helm of. It’s going to return even if this initial push fails. And the real target is Trump, based on the articles. The procedural vote failed last night, but it's not over.
This is such an odd exercise. Democrats might as well say "we know it would be politically bad to impeach Trump so we picked Hegseth."
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) November 10, 2026
🚨 OMG. Dem Rep. Yassamin Ansari is now pushing to launch lawfare investigations against the TROOPS who followed orders underneath SecWar Pete Hegseth She straight-up said it: "People down the chain at the Pentagon who carried out these orders NEED to be investigated." Mask off. They hate our servicemembers 😠 @PeteHegseth is FULLY standing behind the troops. They have to get through him first!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 10, 2026
They are gunning for this man with a death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy, hoping to exsanguinate the Trump administration until it can’t fight a real impeachment push against the president. The Democrats are also betting that Trump will go half-cocked and reckless to the point that they can file official impeachment articles. It’s something of a throwback to what Republicans did to ensnare Andrew Johnson after Lincoln’s assassination: he tried to fire Edwin Stanton, defying the then-Tenure of Office Act.
While former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave a strong defense of Hegseth, she also exposed how the Democrats will mission creep their way toward impeaching Trump:
Karoline Leavitt just delivered a brilliant IRONCLAD defense of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on live TV. After all, it was Leavitt who was in the Situation Room with President Trump and Hegseth, NOT Thomas Massie. She personally witnessed what was happening behind closed doors. Every second of this 2-minute defense is worth listening to. LEAVITT: “I was in the Situation Room, I was in the Oval Office on many occasions where I watched firsthand Secretary of War Pete Hegseth act directly at the request and the execution of the commander-in-chief, his boss, the president of the United States.” “That’s why these articles of impeachment are fundamentally so flawed, because Secretary of War Hegseth was always acting on behalf of the president in directing the military.” She just obliterated Massie’s entire narrative.
— Overton (@overton_news) November 10, 2026
LEAVITT: “I was in the Situation Room, I was in the Oval Office on many occasions where I watched firsthand Secretary of War Pete Hegseth act directly at the request and the execution of the commander-in-chief, his boss, the president of the United States.” “That’s why these articles of impeachment are fundamentally so flawed, because Secretary of War Hegseth was always acting on behalf of the president in directing the military.”
These guys have two years. It could be longer if they expand their majorities in 2028. Even if we chip away at the Democrats’ current foothold on the Hill, we’re unlikely to retake any chamber until 2030 or 2032.