[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 705 Laid on Table in House (LTH)]
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115th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 705
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high
misdemeanors.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 19, 2018
Mr. Al Green of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was
laid on the table
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RESOLUTION
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high
misdemeanors.
Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the United States,
is unfit to be President, unfit to represent the American values of
decency and morality, respectability and civility, honesty and
propriety, reputability and integrity, is unfit to defend the ideals
that have made America great, unfit to defend liberty and justice for
all as extolled in the Pledge of Allegiance, is unfit to defend the
American ideal of all persons being created equal as exalted in the
Declaration of Independence, is unfit to ensure domestic tranquility,
promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity as lauded in the preamble to the United
States Constitution, is unfit to protect government of the people, by
the people, for the people as elucidated in the Gettysburg Address, and
is impeached for high misdemeanors, and that the following article of
impeachment be exhibited to the Senate:
Article of Impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives
of the United States, in the name of itself and of the people of the
United States, against Donald John Trump, President of the United
States, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for
high misdemeanors committed as President constituting harm to American
society to the manifest injury of the people of the United States:
article i
In his capacity as President of the United States, unmindful of the
high duties of his high office, of the dignity and proprieties thereof,
and of the harmony, and respect necessary for stability within the
society of the United States, Donald John Trump has with his bigoted
statements done more than simply insult individuals and groups of
Americans, he has harmed the American society by attempting to convert
his bigoted statements into United States policy and by associating the
presidency and the people of the United States with bigotry on one or
more of the following occasions:
On January 27, 2017, Donald John Trump issued Executive Order 13769
providing for a partial shutdown of immigration from mainly Muslim
countries to fulfill a bigoted campaign promise that read as follows:
``DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON PREVENTING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION (New York,
NY) December 7th, 2015--Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and
complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our
country's representatives can figure out what's going on,'' thereby
attempting to convert a bigoted campaign promise into United States
policy, associating the presidency and the people of the United States
with bigotry, thereby casting contempt upon Muslims, inciting hate and
hostility, and sowing discord among the people of the United States on
the basis of religion.
On July 26, 2017, Donald John Trump made a public statement
substantially as follows: ``After consulting with my Generals and
military experts, please be advised that the United States Government
will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any
capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive
and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous
medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would
entail,'' thereby attempting to convert his bigoted statement into
United States policy, associating the presidency and the people of the
United States with bigotry, thereby casting contempt on transgender
individuals, inciting hate and hostility, and sowing discord among the
people of the United States on the basis of gender.
On August 15, 2017, Donald John Trump made a widely-published
statement characterizing a group of anti-Semites, bigots, racists,
white nationalists, and Ku Klux Klansmen who rallied in
Charlottesville, Virginia, as ``very fine people,'' thereby associating
the presidency and the people of the United States with bigotry.
On October 7, 2017, hate groups returned to Charlottesville,
Virginia, at the statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general,
chanting ``You will not replace us!'' after having chanted in their
August Charlottesville rally that ``Jews will not replace us!''. Since
this event on October 7, the President has made widely-published
statements about many issues, including the National Football League,
but has not made one widely-published statement condemning the hate
groups for returning to the place where an innocent person lost her
life at the hands of hate.
On January 11, 2018, Donald John Trump held a meeting with a
bipartisan group of Congressional leaders that focused primarily on
legislation that would provide a statutory protected status for
individuals brought to the United States without documentation. At this
meeting, as has been widely-published, Donald John Trump made
references to people from s-h-i-t-h-o-l-e (or s-h-i-t-h-o-u-s-e)
countries. He also questioned why we need more Haitians or people from
African countries, proclaiming that we should take them out. Donald
John Trump then suggested that Norwegians were better suited to be
immigrants to this country, thereby casting contempt on citizens and
noncitizens who were welcomed here by previous Presidents due to
natural disaster and civil unrest, thereby attempting to convert his
bigoted statements into United States policy, associating the
presidency and the people of the United States with bigotry, inciting
hate and hostility, and sowing discord among the people of the United
States on the basis of national origin.
In all of this, the aforementioned Donald John Trump has, by his
statements, brought the high office of President of the United States
in contempt, ridicule, disgrace and disrepute, has sown discord among
the people of the United States, has demonstrated that he is unfit to
be President, and has betrayed his trust as President of the United
States to the manifest injury of the people of the United States, and
has committed a high misdemeanor in office.
Therefore, Donald John Trump by causing such harm to the society of
the United States is unfit to be President and warrants impeachment,
trial, and removal from office.
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