President Donald Trump said he could open criminal investigations or release damaging information on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden if Democrats attempt a third impeachment.
In a Thursday interview on Newsmax’s Finnerty with host Rob Finnerty, Trump framed the warning as conditional and tied it directly to any new impeachment push from Democrats after the midterms.
He told viewers he had already passed on chances to go after political opponents, but that a fresh impeachment drive could change that calculation. The Jerusalem Post carried the exchange and the surrounding political stakes.
Trump made clear what he meant by “doing numbers” on former officials.
He said he could have gone after them in the criminal system or hit their public standing hard, and that the option remains open.
"I could have done numbers on Hillary Clinton,"
Trump told Finnerty, then widened the list.
"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 spelled out the two tracks he said were available.
"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 claimed his administration holds substantial material on the three Democrats he named.
"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."
He offered no documents, no dates, and no specific allegations in the interview. The claim stood as his assertion alone.
Finnerty pressed him on whether he planned to use it. Trump’s answer stayed conditional.
"Well, I mean, I guess not. Probably not. But I think if they impeach me again, you know, again,"
Finnerty summed up the tone in three words: “Things could get ugly.”
Trump also brushed aside the idea of legitimate grounds for another impeachment, saying the only charge Democrats could bring would be that he is making the country strong, and that he has built what he calls an “anti-impeachment movement.”
The Thursday interview was not the first time Trump floated this warning. On October 7, during an Oval Office event, he made similar comments and said he had held back out of respect for the presidency.
That earlier statement tracked the same logic: restraint first, then a different posture if Democrats move to impeach him again.
Voters will decide House control on November 3. Democrats are working to retake the chamber. If they do, oversight fights and investigations become far more likely.
Even so, Democratic leaders have not locked in an impeachment plan. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said last month that Democrats had neither ruled it out nor committed to it. House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar has said impeachment is not among the party’s top priorities.
Trump was impeached twice in his first term and acquitted by the Senate both times. He treats another attempt as both a political risk for Democrats and a green light for counters he says he previously declined.
The warning against Hillary Clinton lands against an active legal track. Trump is asking the Supreme Court to revive a dismissed lawsuit that accused Clinton and her allies of trying to wreck his 2016 campaign with Russia collusion claims, Just The News reported.
A federal judge had thrown the case out and ordered Trump and attorney Alina Habba to pay roughly $1 million in sanctions. Trump’s lawyers now argue the suit was a legitimate effort and that the sanctions were improper punishment.
That filing fits a longer pattern of Trump’s Supreme Court push on the Clinton suit over the 2016 collusion narrative.
Clinton, for her part, has stayed visible in Democratic politics. She has drawn conservative pushback on policy fights and has kept a public schedule that includes campaign work for party candidates.
Readers tracking those lanes have seen Clinton’s clash over Lake Ontario policy create sharp online criticism from the right.
She has also moved early in the 2026 cycle. Her first Senate endorsement of the cycle backed a Minnesota Democrat, and she has lined up rally appearances to boost state parties.
That same organizing push includes plans for an Omaha rally aimed at Nebraska Democrats, keeping her in the midterm conversation Trump is now addressing head-on.
Separate from the lawsuit and the endorsements, Clinton has also revisited old campaign choices, including her later admission that campaigning through pneumonia in 2016 was a mistake.
Put together, the Newsmax interview, the October 7 Oval Office comments, and the unresolved Clinton litigation show Trump treating a third impeachment drive as a trigger, not a surprise.
He says he held fire before. He says he still has material on Clinton, Obama, and Biden. He says he will reconsider if Democrats force the issue again after November 3.
Democratic leaders have left the door cracked without walking through it. Jeffries will not rule impeachment in or out. Aguilar ranks it below other priorities. That ambiguity is exactly what Trump is answering.
He did not release the information he claims to hold. He did not name charges. He set a condition: another impeachment attempt, and the posture changes.
For voters watching the midterms, the message is blunt. Democrats can chase a third impeachment if they retake the House. Trump is telling them he will not absorb it quietly this time.
Accountability runs both ways. If Democrats reload the impeachment machine for politics instead of clear high crimes, they should expect the other side to use every lawful tool it has left.
