IV 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1378 

Providing the sense of the House of Representatives that the attempted 

assassination of former President Donald J. Trump was an abhorrent 

act of cowardice that must be universally condemned and that the only 

appropriate place for the Nation to settle political disputes is at the 

ballot box on election day. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 23, 2024 

Mr. OGLES (for himself, Mr. ARMSTRONG, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. 

POSEY, Mr. DONALDS, Mr. BURLISON, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mrs. 

HARSHBARGER, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. 

WALTZ, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. BACON, Mr. LOUDERMILK, Mr. BABIN, Mr. 

ROSENDALE, Mr. MOONEY, Mr. TIFFANY, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. NORMAN, 

and Mr. BRECHEEN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Providing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

the attempted assassination of former President Donald 

J. Trump was an abhorrent act of cowardice that must 

be universally condemned and that the only appropriate 

place for the Nation to settle political disputes is at 

the ballot box on election day. 

Whereas former President Donald J. Trump hosted a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024; 


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Whereas, in the middle of remarks, former President Trump 

turned his head and was shot in the ear by an assailant 

attempting to end Trump’s life; 

Whereas the assailant murdered Corey Comperatore, a courageous father of 2, husband, and pillar of his community 

who sacrificed his life so his family could keep theirs; 

Whereas political violence, in all of its manifestations and 

from any political persuasion, must be condemned; 

Whereas, prior to the attempted assassination of former 

President Trump, many Democrats often recklessly referred to the 45th President as a ‘‘dictator’’, even comparing him to the profoundly wicked mass murderer 

Adolf Hitler; 

Whereas President Joe Biden had mentioned a week earlier 

that it was ‘‘time to put Trump in a bulls-eye’’, and has 

repeatedly referred to former President Trump and his 

supporters as ‘‘an existential threat’’ to United States democracy, arguing ‘‘we cannot let Trump win’’; 

Whereas the responsibility for the attempted assassination is 

squarely with the assailant; 

Whereas several members of the Democratic Party, including 

Joe Biden, have nevertheless utilized inflammatory language to justify violence against Donald Trump, including by saying (of Trump): ‘‘If we were in high school, I’d 

take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him’’; 

Whereas a call to civility and a ‘‘lowering of the temperature’’ 

should begin with the incumbent President’s own personal example; 

Whereas the unprecedented animosity toward former President Trump was once again demonstrated by the introduction of H.R. 8081, the DISGRACED Former 


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Protectees Act, which aimed to take away Trump’s Secret Service detail; and 

Whereas such legislation was intended to fetishize violence 

and placate the worst impulses of a hyperpartisan political constituency, and should be dismissed out of hand: 

Now, therefore, be it 

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

3 (1) attempted assassination of former President 

4 Donald J. Trump was an abhorrent act of cowardice 

5 that must be universally condemned; and 

6 (2) only appropriate place for the Nation to set7 tle political disputes is at the ballot box on election 

8 day. 

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