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A professor who has correctly predicted the results of every presidential election for more than 30 years has claimed Donald Trump will be impeached during his first term in the White House.

US political historian Allan Lichtman has predicted the exact result of every presidential election since 1984 including Mr Trump’s shock victory.

But in an interview with CNBC, the academic said the president-elect’s history of playing “fast and loose with the law” could lead to an impeachment.

He said his prediction was based on “gut feeling” rather than the scientific method he uses to forecast the election results. Mr Lichtman normally uses a system he developed using 13 indicators or “keys”.

“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,” he said.

“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.”

Mr Lichtman said the Trump University lawsuits – which were settled yesterday – and allegations of sexual assaults made against him prove that the property tycoon has a better than average change of being kicked out of office.

The academic described Mr Trump as “a wildcard” with “no record of public service” and suggested that his opponents within the Republican party may want his first term to be cut short so that Vice President-elect Mike Pence could take over.

Mr Lichtman has successfully predicted the result of every election for 30 years using his system involving 13 true or false statements. These include how well the party did in the midterm elections, whether the sitting president is not running, recent foreign policy successes and major policy changes.

If six or more of the 13 statements are false, the party in power is likely to lose.