IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1021 
Providing the sense of the House of Representatives that the political persecu-
tion of President Donald J. Trump is morally unjustifiable and has 
damaged institutional trust to an extraordinary degree; that the Biden 
administration’s weaponization of the Federal Government against Don-
ald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee for President in 2024, must 
end; that those responsible for the persecution of Donald Trump within 
the Biden administration must be held accountable by Congress; and 
that the United States would benefit enormously from having Donald 
J. Trump inaugurated once again as the President of the United States 
on January 20, 2025. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 16, 2024 
Mr. OGLES submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Providing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the political persecution of President Donald J. Trump 
is morally unjustifiable and has damaged institutional 
trust to an extraordinary degree; that the Biden adminis-
tration’s weaponization of the Federal Government 
against Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee 
for President in 2024, must end; that those responsible 
for the persecution of Donald Trump within the Biden 
administration must be held accountable by Congress; 
and that the United States would benefit enormously 
from having Donald J. Trump inaugurated once again 
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as the President of the United States on January 20, 
2025. 
Whereas, on June 16, 2015, Donald John Trump announced 
his people-first campaign to become the 45th President 
of the United States; 
Whereas Mr. Trump immediately saw his character assailed 
by opportunistic leftwing activists after the future Presi-
dent correctly pointed out that unmitigated illegal immi-
gration and drug trafficking represented a national secu-
rity crisis, issues that to this day Democrats ignore; 
Whereas leftist media outlets (and their Republican-in-name- 
only allies) commonly impugned the integrity of the fu-
ture President throughout the 2016 campaign, and 
marginalized the legitimate, unheard grievances of tens of 
millions of Americans; 
Whereas a coordinated assault between the aforementioned 
media outlets and the failed Hillary Clinton campaign to 
smear their fellow Americans as racist, misogynistic, and 
xenophobic worked to socially divide the Nation; 
Whereas the Obama administration also worked, unsuccess-
fully, to deny the people of the United States their vic-
tory on November 8, 2016, including through Operation 
Crossfire Hurricane; 
Whereas Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) ‘‘investigation’’ of 
the Trump campaign yielded important findings debunk-
ing the ‘‘Trump-Russia collusion’’ conspiracy theory, in-
cluding that— 
(1) senior FBI personnel, including Andrew McCabe 
and Peter Strzok, men who so clearly allowed their own 
political bias to supersede the interests of the United 
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States, ‘‘displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor to-
wards the information that they received, especially infor-
mation received from politically affiliated persons and en-
tities’’, referring to the now-infamous ‘‘Steele dossier’’; 
(2) the FBI was already ‘‘predisposed’’ to inves-
tigate Donald Trump, specifically detailing that the FBI 
had ‘‘highly significant intelligence’’ of the Clinton cam-
paign’s effort to unduly and improperly associate Donald 
Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an ef-
fort to distract the American public away from her pri-
vate email server scandal; 
(3) ‘‘unlike the FBI’s opening of a full investigation 
of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on 
raw, uncorroborated information’’, the FBI applied a 
completely different standard to the Clinton campaign; 
and 
(4) ‘‘based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and 
related intelligence activities, we conclude that the De-
partment [of Justice] and the FBI failed to uphold their 
important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connec-
tion with certain events and activities described in this 
report’’; 
Whereas the FBI continued to weaponize the Steele dossier 
even after being told by an associate of Christopher 
Steele that the associate’s statements may have been mis-
leading; 
Whereas Department of Justice Inspector General Michael 
Horowitz indicated that the investigation into Mr. 
Trump’s campaign was possible due to 17 ‘‘significant in-
accuracies or omissions’’ spread across 4 Foreign Intel-
ligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications for Trump 
campaign aide Carter Page, and Mr. Horowitz went on 
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to criticize the Crossfire Hurricane investigative team, ar-
guing that they ‘‘failed to meet the basic obligation to en-
sure that the Carter Page FISA applications were ‘scru-
pulously accurate’ ’’; 
Whereas Mr. Horowitz disingenuously also argued that the 
impetus for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was not 
due to political bias, even after being made aware of in-
criminating text messages between FBI agents Peter 
Strzok and Lisa Page; 
Whereas it is clear that the Obama administration and the 
FBI committed espionage against a United States citizen 
(Carter Page); 
Whereas Congress, despite the FBI’s abuse of FISA’s title 
VII authorities against the Trump 2016 campaign, still 
chose to reauthorize title VII for another 16 months in 
December 2023, providing the Biden administration the 
resources it needs to replicate what the Obama adminis-
tration did in 2016; 
Whereas, in light of the Obama administration’s abuse of 
FISA, the law should not have been reauthorized without 
significant reform; 
Whereas the Mueller report, which further investigated the 
possibility of Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 
election, indicated that Special Prosecutor Robert 
Mueller’s investigation ‘‘did not establish that members 
of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the 
Russian government in its election interference activi-
ties’’; 
Whereas numerous members of the Democratic Party and 
their supporters immediately parroted the line that ‘‘Rob-
ert Mueller did not exonerate Trump’’, despite the fact 
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that Mueller was serving as a prosecutor, and prosecutors 
do not exonerate the accused; 
Whereas Robert Mueller knew early in his ‘‘investigation’’ 
that Mr. Trump did nothing wrong; nevertheless, he still 
worked relentlessly to build a case against the President, 
including by insinuating (incorrectly, according to a 
March 2019 Department of Justice memo) that Presi-
dent Trump could be ‘‘charged’’ with obstruction of jus-
tice; 
Whereas longtime ‘‘deep state’’ Federal bureaucrats have 
willfully engaged in the wholesale persecution of Presi-
dent Trump; 
Whereas current Secretary of State Antony Blinken led the 
now-infamous ‘‘spies who lie’’ letter, recruiting 51 former 
members of the intelligence community to say to the 
American people that the Hunter Biden laptop story ‘‘has 
all the classic earmarks of a Russian information oper-
ation’’; 
Whereas the lies inscribed in that letter contributed to the 
quashing of the Hunter Biden laptop story and contrib-
uted to Joe Biden’s ‘‘victory’’ in the 2020 United States 
Presidential election; 
Whereas no one who signed that letter has been held account-
able in any meaningful way; 
Whereas numerous media outlets initially promoting the 
claims of those 51 former intelligence community mem-
bers have been forced to retract their claims; 
Whereas, like the Obama administration, the Biden adminis-
tration has not shied away from using taxpayer resources 
to further persecute Donald Trump, to include— 
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