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

IV 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. RES. 498 Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high misdemeanors. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JULY 17, 2019 Mr. GREEN of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was laid on the table RESOLUTION Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high misdemeanors. Resolved, that Donald John Trump, President of the 1 United States, is unfit to be President, unfit to represent 2 the American values of decency and morality, respect- 3 ability and civility, honesty and propriety, reputability and 4 integrity, is unfit to defend the ideals that have made 5 America great, unfit to defend liberty and justice for all 6 as extolled in the Pledge of Allegiance, is unfit to defend 7 the American ideal of all persons being created equal as 8 exalted in the Declaration of Independence, is unfit to en- 9 sure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare and 10 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Jul 18, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR498.LTH HR498 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HRES 498 LTH to ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos- 1 terity as lauded in the preamble to the United States Con- 2 stitution, is unfit to protect the government of the people, 3 by the people, for the people as elucidated in the Gettys- 4 burg Address, and is impeached for high misdemeanors 5 that the following Article of Impeachment be exhibited to 6 the Senate: Article of Impeachment exhibited by the 7 House of Representatives of the United States, in the 8 name of itself, of the people of the United States, against 9 Donald John Trump, President of the United States, in 10 maintenance and support of its impeachment against him 11 for high misdemeanors committed as President consti- 12 tuting harm to American society to the manifest injury 13 of the people of the United States: 14 ARTICLE I 15 The House of Representatives on July 16, 2019, 16 strongly condemned President Donald Trump’s racist 17 comments that have legitimized and increased fear and ha- 18 tred of new Americans and people of color by saying that 19 our fellow Americans who are immigrants, and those who 20 may look to the President like immigrants, should ‘‘go 21 back’’ to other countries, by referring to immigrants and 22 asylum seekers as ‘‘invaders’’ and by saying that Members 23 of Congress who are immigrants, or those of our col- 24 leagues who are wrongly assumed to be immigrants, do 25 not belong in Congress or the United States of America. 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Jul 18, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR498.LTH HR498 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •HRES 498 LTH In all of this, the aforementioned Donald John 1 Trump has, by his statements, brought the high office of 2 the President of the United States in contempt, ridicule, 3 disgrace, and disrepute, has sown seeds of discord among 4 the people of the United States, has demonstrated that 5 he is unfit to be President, and has betrayed his trust as 6 President of the United States to the manifest injury of 7 the people of the United States, and has committed a high 8 misdemeanor in office. 9 Therefore, Donald John Trump by causing such 10 harm to the society of the United States is unfit to be 11 President and warrants impeachment, trial, and removal 12 from office. 13 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Jul 18, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\HR498.LTH HR498 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS