III 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 755 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JANUARY 15, 2020 
Received 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United 
States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
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 
Representatives 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 
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its impeachment against him for high crimes and mis-
demeanors. 
ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER 
The Constitution provides that the House of Rep-
resentatives ‘‘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 viola-
tion of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the of-
fice 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 abused the powers of the Presi-
dency, in that: 
Using the powers of his high office, President Trump 
solicited the interference of a foreign government, 
Ukraine, in the 2020 United States Presidential election. 
He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that 
included soliciting the Government of Ukraine to publicly 
announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, 
harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and 
influence the 2020 United States Presidential election to 
his advantage. President Trump also sought to pressure 
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the Government of Ukraine to take these steps by condi-
tioning official United States Government acts of signifi-
cant value to Ukraine on its public announcement of the 
investigations. President Trump engaged in this scheme 
or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of 
personal political benefit. In so doing, President Trump 
used the powers of the Presidency in a manner that com-
promised the national security of the United States and 
undermined the integrity of the United States 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 Govern-
ment of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations 
into— 
(A) a political opponent, former Vice Presi-
dent Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; and 
(B) a discredited theory promoted by Rus-
sia alleging that Ukraine—rather than Rus-
sia—interfered in the 2016 United States Pres-
idential election. 
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(2) With the same corrupt motives, President 
Trump—acting both directly and through his agents 
within and outside the United States Government— 
conditioned two official acts on the public announce-
ments 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 
providing vital military and security assistance 
to Ukraine to oppose Russian aggression and 
which President Trump had ordered suspended; 
and 
(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 ac-
tions, President Trump ultimately released the mili-
tary and security assistance to the Government of 
Ukraine, but has persisted in openly and corruptly 
urging and soliciting Ukraine to undertake investiga-
tions for his personal political benefit. 
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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 secu-
rity and other vital national interests to obtain an im-
proper personal political benefit. He has also betrayed the 
Nation by abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power 
in corrupting democratic elections. 
Wherefore President Trump, by such conduct, has 
demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national se-
curity 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 impeachment 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 Rep-
resentatives ‘‘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 viola-
tion of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the of-
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fice 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 directed the unprecedented, categor-
ical, and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by 
the House of Representatives pursuant to its ‘‘sole Power 
of Impeachment’’. President Trump has abused the pow-
ers of the Presidency in a manner offensive to, and subver-
sive of, the Constitution, in that: 
The House of Representatives has engaged in an im-
peachment inquiry focused on President Trump’s corrupt 
solicitation of the Government of Ukraine to interfere in 
the 2020 United States Presidential election. As part of 
this impeachment inquiry, the Committees undertaking 
the investigation served subpoenas seeking documents and 
testimony deemed vital to the inquiry from various Execu-
tive Branch agencies and offices, and current and former 
officials. 
In response, without lawful cause or excuse, Presi-
dent Trump directed Executive Branch agencies, offices, 
and officials not to comply with those subpoenas. Presi-
dent Trump thus interposed the powers of the Presidency 
against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representa-
tives, and assumed to himself functions and judgments 
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necessary to the exercise of the ‘‘sole Power of Impeach-
ment’’ vested by the Constitution in the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
President Trump abused the powers of his high office 
through the following means: 
(1) Directing the White House to defy a lawful 
subpoena by withholding the production of docu-
ments sought therein by the Committees. 
(2) Directing other Executive Branch agencies 
and offices to defy lawful subpoenas and withhold 
the production of documents and records from the 
Committees—in response to which the Department 
of State, Office of Management and Budget, Depart-
ment 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 Commit-
tees—in response to which nine Administration offi-
cials defied subpoenas for testimony, namely John 
Michael ‘‘Mick’’ Mulvaney, Robert B. Blair, John A. 
Eisenberg, Michael Ellis, Preston Wells Griffith, 
Russell T. Vought, Michael Duffey, Brian McCor-
mack, and T. Ulrich Brechbuhl. 
These actions were consistent with President 
Trump’s previous efforts to undermine United States Gov-
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ernment investigations into foreign interference in United 
States elections. 
Through these actions, President Trump sought to 
arrogate 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 information to the House of Representatives in the 
exercise of its ‘‘sole Power of Impeachment’’. In the his-
tory of the Republic, no President has ever ordered the 
complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought 
to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of 
the House of Representatives to investigate ‘‘high Crimes 
and Misdemeanors’’. This abuse of office served to cover 
up the President’s own repeated misconduct and to seize 
and control the power of impeachment—and thus to nul-
lify 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 con-
stitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause 
of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people 
of the United States. 
Wherefore, President Trump, by such conduct, has 
demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitu-
tion if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a man-
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ner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule 
of law. President 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. 
NANCY PELOSI, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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