H. Res. 755 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
December 18, 2019. 
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of 
the United States, for high crimes and mis-
demeanors. 
Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the 
United States, is impeached for high crimes and mis-
demeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be 
exhibited to the United States Senate: 
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Rep-
resentatives of the United States of America in the name of 
itself and of the people of the United States of America, 
against Donald John Trump, President of the United States 
of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment 
against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER 
The Constitution provides that the House of Representa-
tives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ and that 
the President ‘‘shall be removed from Office on Impeachment 
for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high 
Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. In his conduct of the office of 
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democratic process. He thus ignored and injured the interests 
of the Nation. 
President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of 
conduct through the following means: 
(1) President Trump—acting both directly and 
through his agents within and outside the United States 
Government—corruptly solicited the Government of 
Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into— 
(A) a political opponent, former Vice President 
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; and 
(B) a discredited theory promoted by Russia 
alleging that Ukraine—rather than Russia—inter-
fered in the 2016 United States Presidential elec-
tion. 
(2) With the same corrupt motives, President 
Trump—acting both directly and through his agents 
within and outside the United States Government—con-
ditioned two official acts on the public announcements 
that he had requested— 
(A) the release of $391 million of United 
States taxpayer funds that Congress had appro-
priated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of pro-
viding vital military and security assistance to 
Ukraine to oppose Russian aggression and which 
President Trump had ordered suspended; and 
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(B) a head of state meeting at the White 
House, which the President of Ukraine sought to 
demonstrate continued United States support for 
the Government of Ukraine in the face of Russian 
aggression. 
(3) Faced with the public revelation of his actions, 
President Trump ultimately released the military and se-
curity assistance to the Government of Ukraine, but has 
persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting 
Ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal po-
litical benefit. 
These actions were consistent with President Trump’s 
previous invitations of foreign interference in United States 
elections. 
In all of this, President Trump abused the powers of the 
Presidency by ignoring and injuring national security and 
other vital national interests to obtain an improper personal 
political benefit. He has also betrayed the Nation by abusing 
his high office to enlist a foreign power in corrupting demo-
cratic elections. 
Wherefore President Trump, by such conduct, has dem-
onstrated that he will remain a threat to national security 
and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has 
acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance 
and the rule of law. President Trump thus warrants impeach-
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ment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to 
hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the 
United States. 
ARTICLE II: OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS 
The Constitution provides that the House of Representa-
tives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ and that 
the President ‘‘shall be removed from Office on Impeachment 
for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high 
Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. In his conduct of the office of 
President of the United States—and in violation of his con-
stitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of 
the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, 
protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, 
and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that 
the laws be faithfully executed—Donald J. Trump has di-
rected the unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate de-
fiance of subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives 
pursuant to its ‘‘sole Power of Impeachment’’. President 
Trump has abused the powers of the Presidency in a manner 
offensive to, and subversive of, the Constitution, in that: 
The House of Representatives has engaged in an im-
peachment inquiry focused on President Trump’s corrupt so-
licitation of the Government of Ukraine to interfere in the 
2020 United States Presidential election. As part of this im-
peachment inquiry, the Committees undertaking the inves-
tigation served subpoenas seeking documents and testimony 
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deemed vital to the inquiry from various Executive Branch 
agencies and offices, and current and former officials. 
In response, without lawful cause or excuse, President 
Trump directed Executive Branch agencies, offices, and offi-
cials not to comply with those subpoenas. President Trump 
thus interposed the powers of the Presidency against the law-
ful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, and assumed 
to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise 
of the ‘‘sole Power of Impeachment’’ vested by the Constitu-
tion in the House of Representatives. 
President Trump abused the powers of his high office 
through the following means: 
(1) Directing the White House to defy a lawful sub-
poena by withholding the production of documents 
sought therein by the Committees. 
(2) Directing other Executive Branch agencies and 
offices to defy lawful subpoenas and withhold the pro-
duction of documents and records from the Commit-
tees—in response to which the Department of State, Of-
fice of Management and Budget, Department of Energy, 
and Department of Defense refused to produce a single 
document or record. 
(3) Directing current and former Executive Branch 
officials not to cooperate with the Committees—in re-
sponse to which nine Administration officials defied sub-
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poenas for testimony, namely John Michael ‘‘Mick’’ 
Mulvaney, Robert B. Blair, John A. Eisenberg, Michael 
Ellis, Preston Wells Griffith, Russell T. Vought, Michael 
Duffey, Brian McCormack, and T. Ulrich Brechbuhl. 
These actions were consistent with President Trump’s 
previous efforts to undermine United States Government in-
vestigations into foreign interference in United States elec-
tions. 
Through these actions, President Trump sought to arro-
gate to himself the right to determine the propriety, scope, 
and nature of an impeachment inquiry into his own conduct, 
as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny any and all infor-
mation to the House of Representatives in the exercise of its 
‘‘sole Power of Impeachment’’. In the history of the Republic, 
no President has ever ordered the complete defiance of an im-
peachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so com-
prehensively the ability of the House of Representatives to in-
vestigate ‘‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. This abuse of of-
fice served to cover up the President’s own repeated mis-
conduct and to seize and control the power of impeachment— 
and thus to nullify a vital constitutional safeguard vested 
solely in the House of Representatives. 
In all of this, President Trump has acted in a manner 
contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitu-
tional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law 
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