History professor predicts Mueller will reveal Trump crimes that will ‘shock the nation’ — and force GOP to impeach

Historian Allan Lichtman is known for making accurate predictions — and he’s more certain than ever that President Donald Trump will be impeached this spring.

The American University history professor has correctly predicted the winner of every presidential election since 1984, including Trump, and he has recently updated his book, The Case for Impeachment, that was released in April — before the president fired FBI director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed.

“There’s as strong a case of obstruction of justice as there was against Bill Clinton on a vastly more important matter than a blue dress,” Lichtman told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Remember, virtually every Republican voted for an obstruction article against Bill Clinton.”

He said the special counsel investigation almost certainly had more damning evidence of illegal cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia, which he said would soon be revealed.

“It’s a conspiracy,” Lichtman said. “I believe we have the tip of the iceberg of what the special counsel knows about the relationship between Trump and the Trump team and the Russians. There’s a fair chance that the reason they were covering up all of those calls from then to be national security adviser with the Russians was to cover up a possible quid pro quo, the Russians will help us and in turn we’ll ease those sanctions. Why else make those calls and why else lie about them?”

The historian said the public had already seen strong evidence of obstruction, but he said there’s plenty of reason to predict charges on a “host of crimes” — some of them deadly serious — related to a Russian conspiracy.

“I wouldn’t keep saying collusion isn’t a crime,” Lichtman said. “Of course not, but taking things of value from foreign nationals is a crime, aiding and abetting illegal computer hacking is a crime, negotiating as a private citizen with a hostile foreign power with which there is disputes is a crime. If this is serious enough, and I’ve taken a lot of flak for that, I think there even could be charges of treason. After all, Russia was waging war against us — not a war with bombs and bullets, but a cyber attack, an online attack designed to destroy democracy.”

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who has compared Trump to Stalin, told MSNBC that he still wouldn’t vote to impeach the president — but Lichtman said the public would eventually see evidence that would force Republicans to act.

“Talk about premature — how could he know whether or not he would vote to impeach when a case hasn’t been made yet?” Lichtman said. “He hasn’t been impeached and there hasn’t been a trial in the Senate. I think Mueller — and this is my prediction — is going to come up with findings that are going to shock the country, not only involve conspiracy with Russia but could involve serious financial crimes.”

ICE deporting activists not because of legal status, but due to political work

In the past month, at least four prominent undocumented immigrant activists and community leaders have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The timing of these arrests is no coincidence: this is a strategic and retaliatory move by the Trump administration meant to silence movement leaders and dissuade others from engaging in political work.

Last Thursday, ICE detained Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, during a routine check-in. A few days later, Jean Montrevil, the organization’s co-founder, was deported to his home country of Haiti. Even more recently, ICE detained Eliseo Jurado, whose wife Ingrid Latorre has taken sanctuary in a Colorado church. You may have also heard of Maru Mora-Villalpando, an activist who heads Northwest Detention Center Resistance (NWDCR), an undocumented-led movement that aims to dismantle the deportation and detention machine. In December, Villalpando received a notice to appear in immigration court, where she later received a deportation order. Villalpando says she is being targeted by ICE not because of her “immigration status, but [because they’re] against my political work.”

Since Trump’s election and inauguration, immigrants have mobilized in response to this administration’s attacks on our welfare and wellbeing. The number of sanctuary churches has doubled in the past year, with colleges and universities, restaurants and businesses, and cities and states also declaring themselves safe spaces for migrants. Rapid response teams and community defense groups formed to serve as first-responders in cases of illegal and inhumane immigration enforcement activities. Since September, DREAMers have lobbied and fought for a path to citizenship, refusing to accept the rescission of the program that protected them from deportation. Targeting these activists is a way to repress their movements and demobilize migrant communities, yet organizers insist they will not be silenced.

Asked by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman if she sees a connection between her case and those of Ragbir and Montrevil, Villalpando responsed, “Absolutely, absolutely. We believe this is a clear targeting of people that have dared to not only question the system, but to fight the system, that we are outspoken, that we are public about it, that we’re not afraid. And it’s obviously clear that they’re going after us right now.” There is no doubt about it: targeting immigrant activists is a tool to silence political opponents and undermine pro-immigrant movements. At the same time, it’s important to remember the U.S. government has a long history of targeting activists and that this strategy is usually reserved for organizers and communities of color. In 1927, Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican-born black nationalist and the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was deported by the U.S. government on falsified mail fraud charges. The FBI targeted Garvey through its COINTELPRO program, which also surveilled and monitored Martin Luther King, Jr., the Black Panther Party, and Puerto Rican independence groups like the Young Lords. Activists who refuse to say silent in the face of oppression are a threat to this country’s very foundation. This is why they’re targeted.

This Friday, a coalition of immigrant rights organizations is hosting a demonstration in support of the detained activists in Washington, D.C. The event’s Facebook page reminds us “retaliation is a core tactic of the racist Trump administration that has suppressed dissent and political free speech since his inauguration.”

Immigrants are not taking these attacks sitting down, but rather are mobilizing to show Trump that we will not be silenced. Join us.

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