Trump's desperate to avoid impeachments — as his latest move shows

President Donald Trump is terrified of being impeached, according to a recent report — and that helps explain the recent meeting between his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

“But Kushner’s meeting with Democrats signals that Trump is afraid of losing, [political strategist David] Rothkopf argued,” reported The Daily Beast's Vic Verbalaitis on Monday. Rothkopf added that “of course, Trump has been going around... saying if the Democrats get elected, they will impeach me. And I think part of what he’s trying to do here is, he says to Jared, ‘Go reach out to them.’”

He added that Trump “really doesn’t want to be impeached again. There are a lot of Democrats who are like, what’s the point? But I think Trump sees the point. He knows how devastating that would be to his administration, to his reputation.”

Rothkopf continued, “And there’s no assurances that the next impeachment turns out the way the last did, where the Senate defends him. Because everybody saw what happened then, you know.”

He summed up his views by saying, “I think Trump’s terrified. I think, you know, just as he sends Jared to deal with the Iranians and Jared to deal with the Russians, when he’s got some big issue, he sends Jared.”

In addition, Rothkopf argued that Kushner’s meeting with Jeffries shows an insensitivity toward his own party, as Jeffries has refused to meet with progressive Democrats like Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“So he looks like a guy who’s on the attack against members of his own party, but willing to compromise with the fascist in the White House,” Rothkopf observed.

Steve Schmidt, a former adviser to Republican President George W. Bush, had a similar observation on Monday.

“In the meeting, apparently, Jared Kushner made the point that it would be a good idea to open up a relationship between Hakeem Jeffries, who may soon be the Speaker of the House, and Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff — because, according to The New York Times, which keyed us in on Jared's thinking, the most stable and reasonable people in the White House and in Congress are Susie Wiles and Hakeem Jeffries,” Schmidt said on his podcast.

Schmidt continued, “Here's the thing: Susie Wiles is a staffer, an employee of Donald Trump's. Hakeem Jeffries would be a constitutional officer. His peer is not the White House Chief of Staff — it's the President of the United States.”

He concluded, “Finally, what the Democratic Party must be for in this election — though the means of achieving it may well run through the keyhole of ‘Donald Trump has made everything more expensive’ — is the restoration of the American Constitution. Jared Kushner is under congressional investigation, and the incoming chair of the Judiciary Committee has made clear that Jared Kushner's financial entanglements, stretching from one end of the earth to the other while he functions as shadow Secretary of State, raking in billions from Arab potentates, are going to be scrutinized.”