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House Calendar No. 61 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 755 

[Report No. 116–346] 

Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high 

crimes and misdemeanors. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 10, 2019 

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

Committee on the Judiciary 

DECEMBER 15, 2019 

Reported with an amendment, referred to the House Calendar and ordered to 

be printed 

[Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced resolution, see copy of resolution as introduced on December 10, 2019] 

RESOLUTION 

Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United 

States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

1 Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the 

2 United States, is impeached for high crimes and mis3 demeanors and that the following articles of impeachment 

4 be exhibited to the United States Senate: 


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1 Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Rep2 resentatives of the United States of America in the name 

3 of itself and of the people of the United States of America, 

4 against Donald John Trump, President of the United States 

5 of America, in maintenance and support of its impeach6 ment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

7 ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER

8 The Constitution provides that the House of Represent9 atives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ and that 

10 the President ‘‘shall be removed from Office on Impeach11 ment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high 

12 Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. In his conduct of the office of 

13 President of the United States—and in violation of his con14 stitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President 

15 of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, 

16 protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, 

17 and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that 

18 the laws be faithfully executed—Donald J. Trump has 

19 abused the powers of the Presidency, in that: 

20 Using the powers of his high office, President Trump 

21 solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, 

22 in the 2020 United States Presidential election. He did so 

23 through a scheme or course of conduct that included solic24 iting the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce in25 vestigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the elec26 tion prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 


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1 2020 United States Presidential election to his advantage. 

2 President Trump also sought to pressure the Government 

3 of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official 

4 United States Government acts of significant value to 

5 Ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. 

6 President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of con7 duct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political 

8 benefit. In so doing, President Trump used the powers of 

9 the Presidency in a manner that compromised the national 

10 security of the United States and undermined the integrity 

11 of the United States democratic process. He thus ignored 

12 and injured the interests of the Nation. 

13 President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of 

14 conduct through the following means: 

15 (1) President Trump—acting both directly and 

16 through his agents within and outside the United 

17 States Government—corruptly solicited the Govern18 ment of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations 

19 into— 

20 (A) a political opponent, former Vice Presi21 dent Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; and 

22 (B) a discredited theory promoted by Rus23 sia alleging that Ukraine—rather than Russia— 

24 interfered in the 2016 United States Presidential 

25 election. 


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1 (2) With the same corrupt motives, President 

2 Trump—acting both directly and through his agents 

3 within and outside the United States Government— 

4 conditioned two official acts on the public announce5 ments that he had requested— 

6 (A) the release of $391 million of United 

7 States taxpayer funds that Congress had appro8 priated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of 

9 providing vital military and security assistance 

10 to Ukraine to oppose Russian aggression and 

11 which President Trump had ordered suspended; 

12 and 

13 (B) a head of state meeting at the White 

14 House, which the President of Ukraine sought to 

15 demonstrate continued United States support for 

16 the Government of Ukraine in the face of Rus17 sian aggression. 

18 (3) Faced with the public revelation of his ac19 tions, President Trump ultimately released the mili20 tary and security assistance to the Government of 

21 Ukraine, but has persisted in openly and corruptly 

22 urging and soliciting Ukraine to undertake investiga23 tions for his personal political benefit. 


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1 These actions were consistent with President Trump’s 

2 previous invitations of foreign interference in United States 

3 elections. 

4 In all of this, President Trump abused the powers of 

5 the Presidency by ignoring and injuring national security 

6 and other vital national interests to obtain an improper 

7 personal political benefit. He has also betrayed the Nation 

8 by abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power in cor9 rupting democratic elections. 

10 Wherefore President Trump, by such conduct, has dem11 onstrated that he will remain a threat to national security 

12 and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and 

13 has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-gov14 ernance and the rule of law. President Trump thus war15 rants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and dis16 qualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, 

17 or profit under the United States. 

18 ARTICLE II: OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS

19 The Constitution provides that the House of Represent20 atives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ and that 

21 the President ‘‘shall be removed from Office on Impeach22 ment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high 

23 Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. In his conduct of the office of 

24 President of the United States—and in violation of his con25 stitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President 

26 of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, 


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1 protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, 

2 and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that 

3 the laws be faithfully executed—Donald J. Trump has di4 rected the unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate 

5 defiance of subpoenas issued by the House of Representa6 tives pursuant to its ‘‘sole Power of Impeachment’’. Presi7 dent Trump has abused the powers of the Presidency in a 

8 manner offensive to, and subversive of, the Constitution, in 

9 that: 

10 The House of Representatives has engaged in an im11 peachment inquiry focused on President Trump’s corrupt 

12 solicitation of the Government of Ukraine to interfere in 

13 the 2020 United States Presidential election. As part of this 

14 impeachment inquiry, the Committees undertaking the in15 vestigation served subpoenas seeking documents and testi16 mony deemed vital to the inquiry from various Executive 

17 Branch agencies and offices, and current and former offi18 cials. 

19 In response, without lawful cause or excuse, President 

20 Trump directed Executive Branch agencies, offices, and offi21 cials not to comply with those subpoenas. President Trump 

22 thus interposed the powers of the Presidency against the 

23 lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, and as24 sumed to himself functions and judgments necessary to the 


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1 exercise of the ‘‘sole Power of Impeachment’’ vested by the 

2 Constitution in the House of Representatives. 

3 President Trump abused the powers of his high office 

4 through the following means: 

5 (1) Directing the White House to defy a lawful 

6 subpoena by withholding the production of documents 

7 sought therein by the Committees. 

8 (2) Directing other Executive Branch agencies 

9 and offices to defy lawful subpoenas and withhold the 

10 production of documents and records from the Com11 mittees—in response to which the Department of 

12 State, Office of Management and Budget, Department 

13 of Energy, and Department of Defense refused to 

14 produce a single document or record. 

15 (3) Directing current and former Executive 

16 Branch officials not to cooperate with the Commit17 tees—in response to which nine Administration offi18 cials defied subpoenas for testimony, namely John 

19 Michael ‘‘Mick’’ Mulvaney, Robert B. Blair, John A. 

20 Eisenberg, Michael Ellis, Preston Wells Griffith, Rus21 sell T. Vought, Michael Duffey, Brian McCormack, 

22 and T. Ulrich Brechbuhl. 

23 These actions were consistent with President Trump’s 

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1 vestigations into foreign interference in United States elec2 tions. 

3 Through these actions, President Trump sought to ar4 rogate to himself the right to determine the propriety, scope, 

5 and nature of an impeachment inquiry into his own con6 duct, as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny any and 

7 all information to the House of Representatives in the exer8 cise of its ‘‘sole Power of Impeachment’’. In the history of 

9 the Republic, no President has ever ordered the complete 

10 defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct 

11 and impede so comprehensively the ability of the House of 

12 Representatives to investigate ‘‘high Crimes and Mis13 demeanors’’. This abuse of office served to cover up the 

14 President’s own repeated misconduct and to seize and con15 trol the power of impeachment—and thus to nullify a vital 

16 constitutional safeguard vested solely in the House of Rep17 resentatives. 

18 In all of this, President Trump has acted in a manner 

19 contrary to his trust as President and subversive of con20 stitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause 

21 of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people 

22 of the United States. 

23 Wherefore, President Trump, by such conduct, has 

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1 ner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule 

2 of law. President Trump thus warrants impeachment and 

3 trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and 

4 enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United 

5 States. 


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House Calendar No. 61 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 755 

[Report No. 116–346] 

RESOLUTION 

United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the 

DECEMBER 15, 2019 

Reported with an amendment, referred to the House 

Calendar and ordered to be printed 


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