[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1021 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1021

Providing the sense of the House of Representatives that the political 
 persecution of President Donald J. Trump is morally unjustifiable and 
 has damaged institutional trust to an extraordinary degree; that the 
Biden administration's weaponization of the Federal Government against 
  Donald Trump, the Republican Party's nominee for President in 2024, 
 must end; that those responsible for the persecution of Donald Trump 
 within the Biden administration must be held accountable by Congress; 
and that the United States would benefit enormously from having Donald 
 J. Trump inaugurated once again as the President of the United States 
                          on January 20, 2025.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2024

Mr. Ogles submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Providing the sense of the House of Representatives that the political 
 persecution of President Donald J. Trump is morally unjustifiable and 
 has damaged institutional trust to an extraordinary degree; that the 
Biden administration's weaponization of the Federal Government against 
  Donald Trump, the Republican Party's nominee for President in 2024, 
 must end; that those responsible for the persecution of Donald Trump 
 within the Biden administration must be held accountable by Congress; 
and that the United States would benefit enormously from having Donald 
 J. Trump inaugurated once again as the President of the United States 
                          on January 20, 2025.

Whereas, on June 16, 2015, Donald John Trump announced his people-first campaign 
        to become the 45th President of the United States;
Whereas Mr. Trump immediately saw his character assailed by opportunistic 
        leftwing activists after the future President correctly pointed out that 
        unmitigated illegal immigration and drug trafficking represented a 
        national security crisis, issues that to this day Democrats ignore;
Whereas leftist media outlets (and their Republican-in-name-only allies) 
        commonly impugned the integrity of the future President throughout the 
        2016 campaign, and marginalized the legitimate, unheard grievances of 
        tens of millions of Americans;
Whereas a coordinated assault between the aforementioned media outlets and the 
        failed Hillary Clinton campaign to smear their fellow Americans as 
        racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic worked to socially divide the 
        Nation;
Whereas the Obama administration also worked, unsuccessfully, to deny the people 
        of the United States their victory on November 8, 2016, including 
        through Operation Crossfire Hurricane;
Whereas Special Counsel John Durham's report on the Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation's (FBI) ``investigation'' of the Trump campaign yielded 
        important findings debunking the ``Trump-Russia collusion'' conspiracy 
        theory, including that--

    (1) senior FBI personnel, including Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok, men 
who so clearly allowed their own political bias to supersede the interests 
of the United States, ``displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor 
towards the information that they received, especially information received 
from politically affiliated persons and entities'', referring to the now-
infamous ``Steele dossier'';

    (2) the FBI was already ``predisposed'' to investigate Donald Trump, 
specifically detailing that the FBI had ``highly significant intelligence'' 
of the Clinton campaign's effort to unduly and improperly associate Donald 
Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to distract the 
American public away from her private email server scandal;

    (3) ``unlike the FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown 
members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information'', 
the FBI applied a completely different standard to the Clinton campaign; 
and

    (4) ``based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related 
intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department [of Justice] and 
the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the 
law in connection with certain events and activities described in this 
report'';

Whereas the FBI continued to weaponize the Steele dossier even after being told 
        by an associate of Christopher Steele that the associate's statements 
        may have been misleading;
Whereas Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz indicated that 
        the investigation into Mr. Trump's campaign was possible due to 17 
        ``significant inaccuracies or omissions'' spread across 4 Foreign 
        Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications for Trump campaign 
        aide Carter Page, and Mr. Horowitz went on to criticize the Crossfire 
        Hurricane investigative team, arguing that they ``failed to meet the 
        basic obligation to ensure that the Carter Page FISA applications were 
        `scrupulously accurate''';
Whereas Mr. Horowitz disingenuously also argued that the impetus for the 
        Crossfire Hurricane investigation was not due to political bias, even 
        after being made aware of incriminating text messages between FBI agents 
        Peter Strzok and Lisa Page;
Whereas it is clear that the Obama administration and the FBI committed 
        espionage against a United States citizen (Carter Page);
Whereas Congress, despite the FBI's abuse of FISA's title VII authorities 
        against the Trump 2016 campaign, still chose to reauthorize title VII 
        for another 16 months in December 2023, providing the Biden 
        administration the resources it needs to replicate what the Obama 
        administration did in 2016;
Whereas, in light of the Obama administration's abuse of FISA, the law should 
        not have been reauthorized without significant reform;
Whereas the Mueller report, which further investigated the possibility of 
        Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, indicated that 
        Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation ``did not establish 
        that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the 
        Russian government in its election interference activities'';
Whereas numerous members of the Democratic Party and their supporters 
        immediately parroted the line that ``Robert Mueller did not exonerate 
        Trump'', despite the fact that Mueller was serving as a prosecutor, and 
        prosecutors do not exonerate the accused;
Whereas Robert Mueller knew early in his ``investigation'' that Mr. Trump did 
        nothing wrong; nevertheless, he still worked relentlessly to build a 
        case against the President, including by insinuating (incorrectly, 
        according to a March 2019 Department of Justice memo) that President 
        Trump could be ``charged'' with obstruction of justice;
Whereas longtime ``deep state'' Federal bureaucrats have willfully engaged in 
        the wholesale persecution of President Trump;
Whereas current Secretary of State Antony Blinken led the now-infamous ``spies 
        who lie'' letter, recruiting 51 former members of the intelligence 
        community to say to the American people that the Hunter Biden laptop 
        story ``has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information 
        operation'';
Whereas the lies inscribed in that letter contributed to the quashing of the 
        Hunter Biden laptop story and contributed to Joe Biden's ``victory'' in 
        the 2020 United States Presidential election;
Whereas no one who signed that letter has been held accountable in any 
        meaningful way;
Whereas numerous media outlets initially promoting the claims of those 51 former 
        intelligence community members have been forced to retract their claims;
Whereas, like the Obama administration, the Biden administration has not shied 
        away from using taxpayer resources to further persecute Donald Trump, to 
        include--

    (1) the raid on Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022 (in lieu of other less 
coercive measures), conducted by the FBI at the behest of Attorney General 
Merrick Garland; and

    (2) the ``investigation'' being led by John ``Jack'' Luman Smith;

Whereas, on August 11, 2023, legislation was introduced in the House of 
        Representatives to prohibit the use of Federal funds to pay the salary 
        of Jack Smith;
Whereas ongoing efforts to remove Donald John Trump from the ballot, including 
        the effort by the incumbent Colorado secretary of state, amount to the 
        disenfranchisement of millions of Americans and a deliberate assault on 
        the Nation's electoral process;
Whereas efforts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot of any State ought to be 
        condemned fully by Americans of good will;
Whereas Democrats have also gone so far as to politicize impeachment to 
        undermine President Trump;
Whereas the Democratic Party's intention to politicize the impeachment process 
        was made clear on July 16, 2019, when Congressman Al Green of Texas 
        attempted to impeach President Trump for ``racism'';
Whereas House Democrats chose again to politicize impeachment in December 2019 
        on the basis that President Trump allegedly withheld Ukrainian 
        assistance unless President Zelensky of Ukraine agreed to investigate 
        the Bidens;
Whereas security assistance was delivered to the Ukrainians on September 11, 
        2019, without any investigation into the Bidens, which clearly 
        contradicts the narrative of a quid pro quo arrangement;
Whereas the second impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, on the basis that 
        the President ``incited an insurrection'' on January 6, 2021, 
        predictably failed;
Whereas President Trump told a large group of supporters that day to 
        ``peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard'';
Whereas President Trump did nothing wrong on January 6, 2021;
Whereas hyperpartisanship often guided the Democratic Party's reactions to 
        various events during the Trump Presidency;
Whereas massive protests began against President Trump upon his taking office in 
        January 2017, with dishonest reporting lambasting his Executive Order 
        13769 (later superseded by Executive Order 13780) as a ``Muslim ban'', 
        even while Executive Order 13769 and subsequent orders did not apply to 
        the vast majority of Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia 
        and Indonesia, and further included 3 countries then designated on the 
        Department of State's State Sponsors of Terrorism list;
Whereas Democrats insisted that the elimination of Qassim Soleimani in January 
        2020 would lead to World War III, ignoring the fact that Soleimani was 
        responsible for thousands of American casualties and regional unrest;
Whereas the Washington Post and New York Times published allegations in June 
        2020, pushed by congressional Democrats, that President Trump and his 
        administration had knowledge of ``Russian bounties'' being offered to 
        the Taliban and Taliban affiliates for the murder of American and allied 
        servicemembers;
Whereas, in April 2021, the United States intelligence community found it only 
        had ``low to moderate confidence'' in those allegations;
Whereas an industry of ``fake news'', spearheaded by President Trump's political 
        opponents in an effort to discredit him, sprang up during his 
        Presidency;
Whereas President Trump remains the most successful President in recent history, 
        made all the more impressive in light of relentless leftist opposition 
        to his agenda;
Whereas some of those accomplishments include--

    (1) moving the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem after 
decades of inaction by previous administrations;

    (2) destroying the ``Arab consensus'' and brokering 4 Arab-Israeli 
peace accords;

    (3) pulling the United States out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 
Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal, and immediately applying a 
maximum pressure campaign against Tehran;

    (4) eliminating the head of the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani;

    (5) setting up (pre-COVID), the strongest United States economy in 
decades, which included--

    G    (A) 7,000,000 more jobs;

    G    (B) reducing tax burdens on Americans, nearly doubling the 
standard deductions for single and married persons, and cutting the 
corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent to bring more jobs back to 
the United States;

    G    (C) a boost of about $6,000 a year for middle-income families, as 
more than 6,000,000 United States workers received wage increases, bonuses, 
and increased benefits as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act;

    G    (D) a 3.5-percent unemployment rate;

    G    (E) 160,000,000 Americans in the workforce;

    G    (F) 7,000,000 fewer Americans on food stamps;

    G    (G) the creation of more than 1,200,000 manufacturing and 
construction jobs;

    G    (H) over $1,500,000,000,000 repatriated into the United States 
from overseas;

    G    (I) securing the United States role as the number 1 producer of 
oil and natural gas in the world;

    G    (J) significantly reducing the cost of regulatory compliance and 
eliminating 8 old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted; and

    G    (K) enjoying the support of 56 percent of Americans who said in an 
October 2020 poll that they were better off than they were 4 years before, 
in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic;

    (6) becoming the first President in United States history to speak at 
the March for Life;

    (7) appointing 3 conservative Justices to the Supreme Court, who 
overturned the manifestly unjust decision Roe v. Wade;

    (8) compelling North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to commit to a 
$400,000,000,000 increase in defense spending;

    (9) rejecting leftist climate dogma and leaving the Paris Climate 
Agreement;

    (10) limiting the spread of the COVID-19 virus, saving untold numbers 
of Americans, by shutting down travel from China in January 2020;

    (11) leveling heavy tariffs against Chinese companies creating unfair 
advantages for themselves, and ending United States preferential treatment 
with Hong Kong to hold China accountable for its infringement on the 
autonomy of Hong Kong;

    (12) designating the Uyghur genocide in China;

    (13) developing administration policy to blacklist and sanction Chinese 
military companies;

    (14) limiting apprehensions by fully enforcing and implementing 
``expedited removal'' of illegal aliens; and

    (15) securing the southern border and protecting United States citizens 
and interests by--

    G    (A) instituting national security travel bans;

    G    (B) reducing refugee resettlement;

    G    (C) stripping discretionary Federal grant funding to sanctuary 
cities;

    G    (D) building over 400 miles of the southern border wall;

    G    (E) entering into 3 asylum cooperation agreements with Honduras, 
El Salvador, and Guatemala to prevent asylum fraud;

    G    (F) establishing the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as 
the ``Remain in Mexico'' policy;

    G    (G) ending catch-and-release; and

    G    (H) working with regional partners, especially Mexico, to confront 
human smuggling; and

Whereas President Trump deserves the thanks of a Nation for his self-sacrifice 
        and commitment to the security and welfare of the United States and the 
        people of the United States: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) the political persecution of President Donald J. Trump 
        is morally unjustifiable and has damaged institutional trust to 
        an extraordinary degree;
            (2) the Biden administration's weaponization of the Federal 
        Government against Donald Trump, the Republican Party's nominee 
        for President in 2024, must end;
            (3) those responsible for the persecution of Donald Trump 
        within the Biden administration must be held accountable by 
        Congress; and
            (4) the United States would benefit enormously from having 
        Donald J. Trump inaugurated once again as the President of the 
        United States on January 20, 2025.
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