Censuring President Donald J. Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election through unlawful means and for inciting insurrection.

Censuring President Donald J. Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election through unlawful means and for inciting insurrection. Whereas, on January 2, 2021, President Donald J. Trump called the secretary of state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, demanding that Secretary Raffensperger, inter alia, overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia by find[ing] me 11,780 votes, Whereas President Trump has consistently raised unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, while producing no evidence in court or to the public, challenging the security and accuracy of the 2020 Presidential election, despite his Administration saying that this was the most secure election in U.S. history; Whereas President Trump has incited his followers to challenge the election with his baseless claims against the 2020 Presidential election; Whereas, on January 6, 2021, the House of Representatives and Senate met at the United States Capitol in a Joint Session to count the votes of the Electoral College; Whereas, on January 6, 2021, immediately prior to the Joint Session, President Trump spoke to a large crowd in the District of Columbia, where he again raised baseless questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election and thereby encouraged the crowd to falsely believe that fraud had occurred; Whereas, in his speech on January 6, 2021, President Trump used phrases like fight like hell [y]ou have to show strength and you have to be strong you’ll never take back our country with weakness everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol not gonna take this White House by a lot we won this election, and we won it by a landslide Whereas, on January 6, 2021, members of the crowd, incited by the President’s speech, and intending to, among other objectives, interfere with the counting of the votes of the Electoral College, breached the United States Capitol, and committed violent, seditious, and destructive acts; Whereas, as a result of that attack on the Capitol, at least five individuals lost their lives, and numerous others were left injured; Whereas, during the attack, President Trump told the insurrectionists, we love you Whereas President Trump has violated his constitutional duties to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States faithfully execute That the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring)— (1) censures President Donald J. Trump for the actions he took as set forth above, including attempting to overturn the 2020 Presidential election and inciting insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021; (2) calls upon President Trump— (A) to acknowledge that President-elect Joseph R. Biden was the victor of the 2020 presidential election and that President-elect Biden will be the lawful President on January 20, 2021; (B) to call on his supporters not to engage in violence; (C) to disavow the actions of the insurrectionists who attacked the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021; and (D) to denounce any further acts of violence, including any planned to occur surrounding the 58th Presidential Inauguration; and (3) finds that, in engaging in the above cited actions, President Donald J. Trump as an officer of the United States … engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [United States], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability,

Summary: This concurrent resolution censures President Donald J. Trump for actions described in this resolution, including attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election and inciting insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The resolution calls upon President Trump to acknowledge that President-elect Joseph R. Biden was the victor of the election and that President-elect Biden will be the lawful President on January 20, 2021; call on his supporters not to engage in violence; disavow the actions of the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol; and denounce any further acts of violence, including any planned to occur surrounding the 58th Presidential Inauguration. Finally, it finds that, in engaging in the above cited actions, President Trump "as an officer of the United States ... engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [United States], or [gave] aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," as described in Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, making him ineligible for future office, unless Congress, in the future, removes such disability by a two-thirds vote of each chamber.