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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Historian outlines eight ways President Trump can be impeached

    American University historian Allan Lichtman has been dubbed the “prediction professor.” He was one of the lone voices who called Trump’s win, using a set of historical factors that has helped him predict nearly every presidential election since 1984.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 4, 2017 • 1 min read

    American University historian Allan Lichtman has been dubbed the “prediction professor.” He was one of the lone voices who called Trump’s win, using a set of historical factors that has helped him predict nearly every presidential election since 1984. Just days after Trump’s win, Lichtman prognosticated that the president would likely be impeached.

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      Allan Lichtman

      American University; author of “The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present"

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    2 of 5
    What's in the approved Republican health care bill?
    1. 0:00Health care bill passes: What's in it, and will those who voted 'yes' risk losing their jobs?
    2. 8:47Historian outlines eight ways President Trump can be impeachedYou’re reading this
    3. 23:10Asylum seekers say border patrol agents are illegally turning them away
    4. 31:57Facing $2 million debt and laying off staff, is J. Crew over?
    5. 40:42New tech can mimic your voice with eerie accuracy
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