Title: Impeaching Joseph R. Biden.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This resolution impeaches President Biden for treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution alleges a variety of offenses ranging from the way he managed the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, to his handling of migrants on the border, to shielding his son from prosecution.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1532 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1532

                      Impeaching Joseph R. Biden.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 27, 2022

 Mr. Gohmert submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
                      Impeaching Joseph R. Biden.

    Resolved, That Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, is 
impeached for Treason, and other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, 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, in maintenance and support of its impeachment 
against President Joseph R. Biden for high crimes and misdemeanors.
    It must be noted that as both Vice President and as President of 
the United States, Joseph R. Biden took the following Oath or 
Affirmation of Office: ``I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will 
faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, 
and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the 
Constitution of the United States.''

                               article i 

    President Joseph R. Biden disastrously managed the withdrawal of 
U.S. military, from Afghanistan, and did intentionally and knowingly 
leave American citizens and thousands of our most devoted allies to be 
murdered, tortured, forced into horrendous and tragic circumstances 
though they had been assured the United States would not abandon them 
to be murdered by the Taliban, all of which has provided our enemies 
with legitimate propaganda that the United States Government cannot be 
trusted, doing virtually irreparable damage to our Nation's effort to 
defeat enemies of our freedom, while President Biden, by his actions, 
did more to give credibility to the statements by the Chinese Communist 
Party officials and Russian diplomats that the United States of America 
could not be trusted as an ally, thereby adhering and giving Aid and 
Comfort to our enemies at the cost of American lives as well as the 
lives of those who previously assisted the United States in 
Afghanistan.

                              article ii 

    President Joseph R. Biden's inhumane and disastrous withdrawal from 
Afghanistan provided a gift of control over much of Afghanistan to the 
sworn enemy of the United States, the Taliban, which had previously 
been driven out of Afghanistan by our Afghan allies with the able 
assistance of American fighters, weapons, and air support by early 
2002, but President Biden's actions have now provided an enemy, sworn 
and dedicated to destroying the United States, to return to its former 
reign of terror across Afghanistan; such action constituting treason in 
assisting the enemy that inflicted the worst act of war and murder 
against Americans on our soil.
    President Joseph R. Biden had been warned that his anticipated 
actions could create the kind of murder, chaos and damage to American 
citizens and American allies as is currently occurring in Afghanistan, 
yet he moved forward with action that gave aid and comfort to our 
murderous enemies at the expense of the well-being of the Nation he 
swore to protect, violating his sworn oath as set out above; 
additionally President Biden compounded his high crime and misdemeanors 
by making repeated statements to American citizens regarding his 
retreat from Afghanistan through the media that both he and our enemies 
knew to be lies regarding the betrayal of our Afghan allies and 
surrender to our sworn enemies.

                              article iii 

    While President Joseph R. Biden continued to assure the people of 
the United States that Americans and our allies were having no trouble 
getting to the airport in Afghanistan and that the Taliban was letting 
them through, people around the world could see at that very time he 
was lying and even officials within his own administration were 
reporting that President Biden's statements were not true, all while 
Americans and our allies were being beaten, tortured and murdered as 
President Biden did nothing but misrepresent the facts, give aid and 
comfort to our enemies, and destroy our Nation's reputation, all while 
knowing that in a security alert issued on August 18, 2021, the U.S. 
Embassy Kabul stated explicitly that ``THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
CANNOT ENSURE SAFE PASSAGE TO THE HAMID KARZAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.''

                              article iv 

    Afghans who would otherwise qualify to leave Afghanistan are now 
similarly trapped and subject to violence and death due to President 
Joseph R. Biden's intentional and knowing withdrawal from Afghanistan 
in such a way that the American military that had won every battle 
would appear to U.S. enemies as a defeat and surrender, thus President 
Joseph R. Biden adhered to our enemies while giving them aid and 
comfort, including more than $80 billion of military weapons and 
equipment, along with at least hundreds of Americans that our enemy 
could use to demand and receive vast amounts more of money to aid the 
enemy of the U.S. in their next attacks against us.

                               article v 

    President Joseph R. Biden also knew that without more time for the 
vetting of potential Afghan immigrants to the U.S., military and State 
Department officials may well be bringing terrorists into the United 
States that could add to the Taliban death toll of 9-11, yet he 
persisted in violating his oath and duty to this country and our 
Constitution.
    The Atlantic's George Packer quotes then-Vice President Biden as 
telling a fellow Obama Administration official in 2010 that these 
refugees shouldn't be a priority as U.S. troops departed: ``F_ _ _ 
that, we don't have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon 
and Kissinger got away with it;'' which provides further evidence that 
President Biden was and continues to be intentionally willing to 
destroy the reputation for trustworthiness of the United States that 
had been rebuilt over a period of decades after the Carter 
administration, at the cost of thousands of devoted and dedicated 
military lives and injuries, as those valiant American military members 
fought evil and sought to bring peace, now intentionally squandered by 
President Joseph R. Biden as he provided aid and comfort to all of 
America's enemies.
    The doubt President Joseph R. Biden has instilled across the globe 
not only does great harm and damage to the Nation he swore to protect, 
it does incalculable harm to the cause of freedom around the world as 
it has provided tremendous aid and comfort to the enemies of the 
Constitution of the United States and the freedoms sought to be 
protected therein.

                              article vi 

    President Joseph R. Biden set a date for removal of all American 
personnel by August 31, 2021, knowing full well that chaos, murder and 
mayhem would ensue as indicated by many advisors, yet, he persisted in 
his orders and demands knowing that the 20th Anniversary of the worst 
attack on American soil killing thousands of Americans would be less 
than two weeks thereafter, also knowing that the most damaging 
development to this Nation other than another massive attack would be 
for the murderous Taliban members to be able to claim they were 
victorious over the United States on that very 20th Anniversary, yet 
President Joseph R. Biden persisted in giving aid and comfort to our 
enemies while devastating our own Nation's reputation, even stating 
that the blame should go to the preceding Administration, whose 
warnings and safeguards against such an occurrence had been completely 
cast aside, disregarded, and belittled, even though the prior 
administration had provided President Biden a Nation without the 
massive insurgence on our southern border, and without the chaos and 
betrayal of our Afghan allies.

                              article vii 

    On August 20, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden vowed that ``any 
attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport 
will be met with swift and forceful response.'' However, when the 
Taliban allowed two vehicle-born IEDs into the airport on August 26, 
2021, which killed thirteen U.S. service members and additional 
innocent civilians, President Joseph R. Biden solely blamed ISIS when 
he had agreed to allow the Taliban, an enemy of the U.S., to secure the 
U.S. perimeter at Bagram Airfield and allowed ISIS into a position 
where they could kill Americans, furthering damage to our reputation 
while he gave aid and comfort to the Taliban, China and Russia.

                             article viii 

    President Joseph R. Biden further gave aid and comfort to our 
enemy, the Taliban, by killing civilians friendly to the U.S. in an 
ordered drone strike on August 29, 2021, and then lying to the American 
people by saying the victims were ISIS-K ``planners.''

                              article ix 

    Pursuant to instructions from President Joseph R. Biden, U.S. 
officials gave the Taliban the names of American citizens, green card 
holders and Afghan allies who would be allowed into the militant-
controlled perimeter of the Kabul airport; such unthinkable action 
aided U.S. enemies by giving them in effect a ``kill list''; and 
although it was allegedly designed to expedite the evacuation of those 
fleeing Afghanistan, the truth is that it is ``. . . just appalling and 
shocking and makes you feel unclean''; all of which violated President 
Joseph R. Biden's oath to the U.S. and our Constitution while at the 
same time giving aid in the form of billions of dollars of equipment to 
our enemies and a list of our allies to either kill, torture or ransom.

                               article x 

    More than 20,000 soldiers were wounded in the conflict in 
Afghanistan, and many of those brave men and women now live with 
permanent disabilities, and suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; 
yet President Joseph R. Biden has chosen to add to their traumatic 
stress leaving them to wonder if their valorous sacrifices were for 
nothing, again giving aid and comfort to our enemies while betraying 
our own military.
    In the months since President Joseph R. Biden took control as the 
loftiest leader in the United States, plots were conceived and created 
with the blessing of President Biden to give our enemy and competing 
nations aid and comfort; furthermore, President Biden has made 
decisions to destroy American credibility on our southern border and in 
Afghanistan, despite knowing that from October 2001 through April 2021, 
more than 2,400 American service members have been killed in 
Afghanistan and more than 3,800 U.S. contractors had also lost their 
lives.

                              article xi 

    Afghan security forces were built and trained at a two-decade cost 
of $83 billion over the course of three prior administrations, but 
because of the orders of President Biden, and despite being warned that 
our enemy, the Taliban, would probably take over quickly without 
different presidential orders, President Biden chose the strategy that 
would do irreparable harm to the United States and give aid and comfort 
to our enemy, causing the Afghan forces to collapse although a 
different strategy would have allowed our allies to remain in control; 
all as comments are now being made to slander our allies who fought 
ably with us and for us in Afghanistan; however President Joseph R. 
Biden continued to insist on a deadline and procedure for withdrawal 
that gave our allied Afghan military no chance to withstand the assault 
that had been prepared for such moment and which deadline was far more 
helpful to U.S. enemies than our own interests, as our enemy, the 
Taliban, uses guns, ammunition, armored personnel carriers, 
helicopters, massive ammunition, bombs, and much more that the Biden 
administration knowingly has left with our enemy.
    Between 2003 and 2019, the United States transferred approximately 
75,898 vehicles, 599,690 weapons, 162,643 pieces of communications 
equipment, 208 aircraft, and 16,191 pieces of intelligence, 
surveillance and reconnaissance equipment to Afghan forces, according 
to a 2017 Government Accountability Office report, and also gave Afghan 
forces 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 
bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers, along with 211 U.S. supplied 
aircraft, among other equipment according to reports from the Special 
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which supplies and 
equipment were left to the enemy of the U.S. by direction of President 
Joseph R. Biden and which aided and comforted our enemy that murdered 
thousands in America on 9-11.

                              article xii 

    President Joseph R. Biden made the disastrous decisions to abandon 
both the Bagram Air Base and U.S. Embassy in Kabul which were both paid 
for at an expensive cost to the U.S. taxpayer, and provided 
strategically important transportation and resources for U.S. citizens 
and allies stranded in Afghanistan, thereby giving aid and comfort to 
enemies of the United States.

                             article xiii 

    Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution requires that 
``Congress shall have the power to . . . declare war'' and ``to raise 
and support armies;'' and President Biden acted unlawfully and 
unconstitutionally in ordering air strikes in Syria, where there was no 
clear and present danger to U.S. troops, which did not aid the United 
States, but did commit the crime of intentionally and knowingly 
violating his oath to the United States Constitution, and President 
Biden previously provided proof of his knowledge that such actions of 
his own were treasonous by his claims though unjustified, that 
President Trump was dangerous ``to our national security, to our 
leadership around the world and to the lives of the brave women and men 
serving in uniform''; establishing his mental capacity to understand 
the treasonous course which he himself had taken.

                              article xiv 

    Iran made credible and specific threats against Fort McNair, a 
United States Army post in Washington, DC, and against the Army's vice 
chief of staff, Gen. Joseph M. Martin, and Iran has also continued to 
enrich its uranium levels toward weapons-grade fissile material to the 
detriment of global stability and the national security of the United 
States and its citizens, while President Biden has failed to respond to 
the growing nuclear and terrorist threats of Iran by continuing to 
capitulate to their demands, undermining national security, aiding and 
comforting the largest sponsor of terrorism against the United States 
and the world, and knowingly putting his own country in grave peril.

                              article xv 

    Though the U.S. Constitution requires that the President ``take 
Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,'' President Joseph R. Biden 
has blatantly acted not to enforce our Nation's duly enacted 
immigration laws, as demonstrated through overtly opening the U.S. 
southern border, failing to keep it as secure as it was when he took 
office, all to the treasonous damage to the United States.

                              article xvi 

    President Joseph R. Biden and his administration have been and are 
transferring people with diseases including thousands of immigrants 
each month suffering from COVID-19 to undisclosed locations all over 
our country just as the Nation had been recovering from such pandemic, 
all as President Biden was warning Americans that they needed to once 
again give up more of their liberty and freedom because of the new 
surge in COVID-19 cases, all clearly demonstrating his willingness to 
criminally violate his oath to this country and to this Nation's 
Constitution, as Americans continue to become infected with and die of 
COVID-19 while the increase in the number of immigrants illegally 
flooding into this country from all over the world continues to set new 
records, showing contempt for his sworn oath to the United States and 
its Constitution; further, these transfers have happened without the 
consent of the governed and President Joseph R. Biden has refused to 
provide Congress with the data necessary to inform U.S. citizens about 
the extent and numbers of these transfers and how many of those 
individuals are Covid positive, though ordering American citizens to 
give up their rights to make healthcare decisions over their own 
bodies.

                             article xvii 

    Article IV, section 4, of the U.S. Constitution requires that ``The 
United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a republican 
form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; 
and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the 
legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence''; however, 
President Joseph R. Biden has refused the pleas of certain border 
states to reverse course and secure the southern border against this 
illegal invasion, even as the U.S. Border Patrol has continued to 
report capturing more terrorists entering our country illegally, and 
despite not knowing how many terrorists are entering without being 
caught, all while President Joseph R. Biden continues to knowingly 
violate his oath, aiding our enemies, sickening, killing, and taking 
freedoms away from Americans.

                             article xviii 

    President Joseph R. Biden intentionally caused media access to 
migrant facilities to be restricted during the ongoing border crisis, 
promoting an active campaign of censorship that restricts freedom of 
the press in direct violation of the First Amendment of the United 
States Constitution that he swore to protect, and President Joseph R. 
Biden further violated his constitutional responsibility of Congress by 
even restricting some members of Congress from being able to do 
adequate oversight of Federal border enforcement, while allowing much 
more freedom to those entering unlawfully, to the direct harm of the 
United States and to the aid and comfort of our enemies and 
adversaries.

                              article xix 

    President Joseph R. Biden further violated his oath of office by 
violating budget rules by freezing billions of dollars set aside to 
fund the border wall between the United States and Mexico, especially 
considering that President Joseph R. Biden is taking actions to add 
further support for more illegal immigration and take more of the money 
authorized only for Americans legally in this country and give it to 
those who have not only entered illegally, but some of whom have 
committed heinous crimes.

                              article xx 

    President Joseph R. Biden has signed numerous Executive orders that 
violate our Nation's Constitution which have severely restricted the 
United States ability to be energy independent, including imposing a 
moratorium on new oil and gas leases on Federal lands and waters, 
embracing disastrously crippling policies that grievously restrict our 
domestic energy production, while also waiving sanctions that were in 
place on Russia's vast expansion of its ability to accelerate its 
natural gas production, which it uses to blackmail or extort our allies 
when it desires, thus showing that President Biden is violating his 
oath of office, aiding and comforting enemies and adversaries, all 
while damaging the economy of the United States, and still further, he 
is doing great harm to the health and well-being of Americans 
struggling to pay the rising energy costs and inflation that President 
Biden is creating.

                              article xxi 

    In furtherance of his intentions to harm American interests and 
help our enemies, President Joseph R. Biden violated his oath to the 
U.S. Constitution and usurped authority he did not have by revoking the 
Keystone XL Pipeline, as that power to regulate foreign and interstate 
commerce belongs solely to Congress, yet he violated his constitutional 
oath and authority to the intentional detriment of the American people 
and for the aid and comfort to Russia and its oligarchs as well as the 
Chinese Communist Party, which have both provided large amounts of 
payments to President Joseph R. Biden's family.

                             article xxii 

    President Joseph R. Biden suspended for 90 days and then 
subsequently revoked President Trump's Executive Order 13920, and 
thereby ended the prohibition of China, Russia, and other foreign 
adversaries, from accessing or owning parts of the U.S. power grid, 
which gave massive aid and comfort to American adversaries while doing 
incalculable damage to the security of the United States and left the 
working people and those on fixed incomes extremely vulnerable to 
foreign interference with their freedom and ability to live without 
suffering, thereby showing more deference and regard for America's 
adversaries than for his own American people.

                             article xxiii 

    President Joseph R. Biden further put Americans in harm's way by 
revoking President Donald J. Trump's Executive Order 13942 that 
addressed the threat that TikTok posed to Americans and which order was 
issued to ensure that Americans' personal data would be free from 
Chinese manipulation and influence, yet President Joseph R. Biden 
intentionally and knowingly put the very people he took an oath to 
protect in clear and present danger and gave aid and comfort to U.S. 
adversaries.

                             article xxiv 

    President Joseph R. Biden has officially kept in place the 
important restrictions that President Trump imposed on the Chinese 
telecommunications firm, Huawei, to restrict the sale of microchips to 
Huawei, yet the Biden administration has in fact approved licenses for 
Huawei to buy microchips from U.S.-based suppliers for use in parts 
including video screens, sensors and its auto component business, all 
of which has aided our enemy while jeopardizing America's national 
security.

                              article xxv 

    President Joseph R. Biden has taken broad actions to infringe on 
the constitutional rights that he swore to protect and defend, and in 
particular, the Second Amendment of the Constitution by creating 
Executive orders that not only do not defend the Constitution as he 
swore, but show an intent to violate the Constitution and the rights it 
recognizes that belong to the American people, as President Biden 
unconstitutionally legislated gun control restrictions by his orders.

                             article xxvi 

    Our Constitution exists to constrain tyrannical power and establish 
a system of governance in the interest of the People, thereby securing 
their lives and the Blessings of Liberty, yet President Joseph R. Biden 
continued to unlawfully deprive U.S. citizens of their lawful 
occupations, by directing the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) to extend the eviction moratorium in August 2021, 
although the U.S. Supreme Court had held in June 2021 that any further 
extension beyond July 2021 would need to be congressionally approved, 
and which action by President Joseph R. Biden was so unconstitutional, 
that it could not pass a Democrat-led House of Representatives or 
Senate. By supporting this action, President Biden acted to 
intentionally usurp the rule of law in order to deprive our Nation's 
landlords of the incomes they rely on to pay their own mortgages on 
such buildings, to feed their families and to provide for their own 
shelter, although he had previously acknowledged that such action was 
likely unconstitutional, all in knowingly violating his oath of office 
and intentionally harming America while aiding its adversaries.

                             article xxvii 

    Joseph R. Biden, while Vice President of the United States, 
corruptly used his office and position of trust to enrich himself and 
family members, directly violating his oath of office by engaging in 
bribery as both a recipient and as the provider of a bribe, 
treasonously harming his country in order to receive money, and in 
order to shield his son from prosecution. Not only did he use his 
position of trust to gain financial rewards for himself and his family, 
he engaged in foreign business entanglements that were a direct 
conflict of interest, a direct violation of his oath of office, and 
were exacerbated by his denials of any knowledge of his family members' 
foreign business dealings, while knowing full well of those precise 
self-dealings, all while demonstrating his knowledge of his high crimes 
and misdemeanors by lying repeatedly about his involvement and 
complicity because he knew it could subject him to impeachment and 
potential criminal liability as it did for Vice President Spiro Agnew. 
Such criminal mens rea was also demonstrated when, as Vice President, 
Joseph R. Biden met with his son's Chinese business partner, helping 
Hunter Biden secure a billion-dollar private equity account. Further 
evidencing Vice President Biden's involvement in the pay-to-play scheme 
that would enrich Hunter Biden who would provide part of his criminal 
rewards back to his father, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, all 
demonstrated by evidence on Hunter Biden's hard drive including the 
revelation that in 2015 Joe Biden met with a high-level official of the 
Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, which had put Hunter on its board. 
Further, in 2018 Joseph R. Biden bragged on video to the Council on 
Foreign Relations that he had a Ukrainian prosecutor fired when he was 
vice president in return for making money available to Ukraine that 
Congress had appropriated, though Congress did not intend it to be used 
to shield Vice President Biden's son from Ukrainian prosecution.

                              conclusion 

    In all of the aforementioned, President Joseph R. Biden by his 
actions and intentional omissions, despite the profound duties of our 
Nation's highest office and the dignities and proprieties thereof, and 
of the harmony, respect, and courtesies necessary for stability within 
the society of the United States, has undermined the integrity of his 
office, has sown discord among the people of the United States, has 
brought disrepute, contempt, ridicule and disgrace on the Presidency, 
has abandoned our only friends and allies in Afghanistan while 
assisting the ascent of our Nation's declared enemies, has acted in a 
manner antithetical to the cause of a just society, has betrayed trust 
as President to the manifest injury of the people of the United States, 
and committed in the aforementioned violations, treason, bribery, as 
well as high crimes and misdemeanors in office.
    Therefore, President Joseph R. Biden, by committing treason, 
bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors, the violation of any of which 
constitutionally establish that he is unfit to be President, has, 
therefore, made necessary his own impeachment, trial, and removal from 
office.
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