Professor who predicated Donald Trump’s shock election win claims he will be impeached during first term in White House
Allan Lichtman says that the firebrand's history of 'playing fast and loose with the law' will be his downfall
DONALD Trump will be impeached during his term in the White House, according to a professor who correctly predicated his election win.
Presidential historian Allan Lichtman told CNBC that the brash billionaire’s history of playing “fast and loose with the law” could see him being thrown out of Washington in the next four years.
He said: “My prediction of a Trump impeachment is not based on a scientific system, like my prediction of a Trump victory, but it comes out of it through gut.
“But it has a few reasons behind it. What you see [with Trump] is what you get: candidates don’t fundamentally change.
“Donald Trump throughout his life has played fast and loose with the law. He was found by the justice department in the seventies to have discriminated against African Americans with his real estate business.”
The academic at American University in Washington D.C was one of the first to correctly predict Trump’s shock election win.
Lichtman also says that cases such as the Trump University scandal and the numerous sexual assault allegations against the him – prove that the President-elect has a better than average chance of being kicked out of office.
The professor went on to say the property tycoon’s opponents within the Republican party may want his first term to be cut short – so that Vice President Mike Pence could take charge.
He said: “Trump is a wildcard, he has no record of public service.
"Republicans love control and they would love to see Mike Pence, the vice president, as president because he is predictable and controllable.”
Lichtman has successfully predicted the result of every election for 30 years using a system involving 13 true or false statements. If six of them are false, the incumbent party loses.
The move, which still needs to be approved by a judge, will see him avert a trial in a potentially embarrassing case – despite insisting during his campaign: “I don’t settle cases, I win in court”.
The deal was announced by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman this afternoon.
Trump has faced allegations for three years that Trump University defrauded students who paid up to $35,000 to enroll in programs which promised to share Trump’s secrets of the real estate industry.
Former students accused Trump University of misleading them by calling itself a university when it was not an accredited school.
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