IV 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 16, 2024 

Mr. OGLES submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

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 


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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-nameonly 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 


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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 


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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 


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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— 


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(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 


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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 


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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— 

(A) 7,000,000 more jobs; 

(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; 


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(C) a boost of about $6,000 a year for middleincome 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; 

(D) a 3.5-percent unemployment rate; 

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

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

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

(H) over $1,500,000,000,000 repatriated into 

the United States from overseas; 

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

(J) significantly reducing the cost of regulatory 

compliance and eliminating 8 old regulations for 

every 1 new regulation adopted; and 

(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; 


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(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— 

(A) instituting national security travel bans; 

(B) reducing refugee resettlement; 

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

(D) building over 400 miles of the southern 

border wall; 

(E) entering into 3 asylum cooperation agreements with Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala 

to prevent asylum fraud; 

(F) establishing the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the ‘‘Remain in Mexico’’ policy; 

(G) ending catch-and-release; and 

(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 


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welfare of the United States and the people of the United 

States: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that— 

3 (1) the political persecution of President Don4 ald J. Trump is morally unjustifiable and has dam5 aged institutional trust to an extraordinary degree; 

6 (2) the Biden administration’s weaponization of 

7 the Federal Government against Donald Trump, the 

8 Republican Party’s nominee for President in 2024, 

9 must end; 

10 (3) those responsible for the persecution of 

11 Donald Trump within the Biden administration 

12 must be held accountable by Congress; and 

13 (4) the United States would benefit enormously 

14 from having Donald J. Trump inaugurated once 

15 again as the President of the United States on Jan16 uary 20, 2025. 

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