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 1: 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] and 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, provide, 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, D.C. 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 any more.” 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.
Pro-Trump
protesters storm the Capitol Building on January 6 [Ahmed Gaber/Reuters]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.
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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.
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