[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 24 Received in Senate (RDS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 24


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 25, 2021

                                Received

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high 
                        crimes and misdemeanors.

    Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the United States, 
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following 
article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
     Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people 
of the United States of America, against Donald John Trump, President 
of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its 
impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.

                 article i: incitement of insurrection

    
    The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives ``shall 
have the sole Power of Impeachment'' and that the President ``shall be 
removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, 
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors''. Further, section 3 of 
the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has 
``engaged in insurrection or rebellion against'' the United States from 
``hold[ing] any office . . . under the United States''. In his conduct 
while President of the United States--and in violation of his 
constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of 
the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, 
and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of 
his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully 
executed--Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by 
inciting violence against the Government of the United States, in that:
    On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States, the Vice President of the United 
States, the House of Representatives, and the Senate met at the United 
States Capitol for a Joint Session of Congress to count the votes of 
the Electoral College. In the months preceding the Joint Session, 
President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the 
Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and 
should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or 
Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, 
President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, DC. 
There, he reiterated false claims that ``we won this election, and we 
won it by a landslide''. He also willfully made statements that, in 
context, encouraged--and foreseeably resulted in--lawless action at the 
Capitol, such as: ``if you don't fight like hell you're not going to 
have a country anymore''. Thus incited by President Trump, members of 
the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, 
interfere with the Joint Session's solemn constitutional duty to 
certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully 
breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement 
personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and 
Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, 
destructive, and seditious acts.
    President Trump's conduct on January 6, 2021, followed his prior 
efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 
2020 Presidential election. Those prior efforts included a phone call 
on January 2, 2021, during which President Trump urged the secretary of 
state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to ``find'' enough votes to 
overturn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened 
Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so.
    In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the 
United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the 
integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful 
transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He 
thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the 
people of the United States.
    Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated 
that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the 
Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner 
grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. Donald 
John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, 
and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or 
profit under the United States.
                                  NANCY PELOSI,

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.