H. Res. 24 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
January 13, 2021. 
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 article of impeachment be 
exhibited to the United States Senate: 
Article 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: INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION 
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’’. Further, section 3 of the 14th 
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Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has 
‘‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion against’’ the United 
States from ‘‘hold[ing] any office . . . under the United 
States’’. In his conduct while President of the United 
States—and in violation of his constitutional 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 con-
stitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully exe-
cuted—Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and 
Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of 
the United States, in that: 
On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment 
to 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. In the 
months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeat-
edly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential 
election results were the product of widespread fraud and 
should not be accepted by the American people or certified 
by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session 
commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the El-
lipse in Washington, DC. There, he reiterated false claims 
that ‘‘we won this election, and we won it by a landslide’’. 
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He also willfully made statements that, in context, encour-
aged—and foreseeably resulted in—lawless action at the Cap-
itol, such as: ‘‘if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to 
have a country anymore’’. Thus incited by President Trump, 
members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, 
among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session’s sol-
emn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 
Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the 
Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, men-
aced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congres-
sional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, de-
structive, and seditious acts. 
President Trump’s conduct on January 6, 2021, fol-
lowed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certifi-
cation of the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Those 
prior efforts included a phone call on January 2, 2021, dur-
ing which President Trump urged the secretary of state of 
Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to ‘‘find’’ enough votes to over-
turn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened 
Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so. 
In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the se-
curity of the United States and its institutions of Govern-
ment. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, 
interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imper-
iled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his 
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trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the 
United States. 
Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, has 
demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national secu-
rity, democracy, 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. Donald John Trump thus 
warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and 
disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, 
or profit under the United States. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Attest: 
Clerk. 
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