Donald Trump impeachment resolution: Full text
The US House is debating impeaching Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection’
after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol.
Below is the full text
of the article of impeachment:
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.
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.
Alia Chughtai/Al Jazeera
This text has been redacte from the following
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