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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 5 

Censuring and condemning President Donald J. Trump for trying to unlawfully overturn the 2020 Presidential election and violating his oath of 

office on January 6, 2021. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 12, 2021 

Mr. FITZPATRICK (for himself, Mr. REED, Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio, Mrs. KIM

of California, Mr. UPTON, Mr. MEIJER, Mr. CURTIS, Mr. GALLAGHER, 

Mr. MOORE of Utah, and Mr. BACON) submitted the following concurrent 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Censuring and condemning President Donald J. Trump for 

trying to unlawfully overturn the 2020 Presidential election and violating his oath of office on January 6, 2021. 

Whereas, on January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment of 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; 

Whereas in the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting 

that the Presidential election results were the product of 


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widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the 

American people or certified by State or Federal officials; 

Whereas shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, DC; 

Whereas there, he reiterated false claims that ‘‘we won this 

election, and we won it by a landslide’’; 

Whereas he also 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 anymore’’; 

Whereas 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; 

Whereas 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; 

Whereas 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; 


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Whereas in all of this, President Trump gravely endangered 

the security of the United States and its institutions of 

Government; 

Whereas he threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and 

imperiled a coequal branch of Government; and 

Whereas he thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the 

manifest injury of the people of the United States: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That Congress— 

3 (1) publicly states that President Donald J. 

4 Trump has acted in a manner grossly incompatible 

5 with self-governance and the rule of law; 

6 (2) censures and condemns President Donald J. 

7 Trump for trying to unlawfully overturn the 2020 

8 Presidential election and violating his oath of office 

9 on January 6, 2021; and 

10 (3) affirms that Joseph R. Biden, Jr.— 

11 (A) was duly elected as the 46th President 

12 of the United States on November 3, 2020; 

13 (B) was certified as the winner of the 2020 

14 Presidential election by a Joint Session of Con15 gress on January 6, 2021; and 

16 (C) will be lawfully sworn in to office on 

17 January 20, 2021. 

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