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 administration'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 as the President of the United States on January 20, 2025.

Bill: 118-hres-1021
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
Introduced: 2024-02-16
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2024-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-02-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p>This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the alleged political persecution of, and weaponization of the federal government by the Biden Administration against, Donald Trump.</p></body></html>

tv_txt: IV 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1021 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 administration’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 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 President correctly pointed out that unmitigated illegal immigration and drug trafficking represented a national security 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 future 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, unsuccessfully, to deny the people of the United States their victory on November 8, 2016, including through Operation Crossfire Hurricane; Whereas Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation of the Trump campaign yielded important findings debunking the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory, including 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 States, displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities , referring to the now-infamous Steele dossier ; (2) the FBI was already predisposed to investigate Donald Trump, specifically detailing that the FBI had highly significant intelligence of the Clinton campaign’s effort to unduly and improperly associate Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to distract the American public away from her private 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 Department [of Justice] and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection 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 misleading; Whereas Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz indicated that the investigation into Mr. Trump’s campaign was possible due to 17 significant inaccuracies or omissions spread across 4 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications for Trump campaign aide Carter Page, and Mr. Horowitz went on to criticize the Crossfire Hurricane investigative team, arguing that they failed to meet the basic obligation to ensure that the Carter Page FISA applications were scrupulously 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 incriminating 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 administration 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 activities ; Whereas numerous members of the Democratic Party and their supporters immediately parroted the line that Robert Mueller did not exonerate Trump , despite the fact 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 President Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice; Whereas longtime deep state Federal bureaucrats have willfully engaged in the wholesale persecution of President 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 operation ; Whereas the lies inscribed in that letter contributed to the quashing of the Hunter Biden laptop story and contributed to Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 United States Presidential election; Whereas no one who signed that letter has been held accountable in any meaningful way; Whereas numerous media outlets initially promoting the claims of those 51 former intelligence community members have been forced to retract their claims; Whereas, like the Obama administration, the Biden administration has not shied away from using taxpayer resources to further persecute Donald Trump, to include— (1) the raid on Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022 (in lieu of other less coercive measures), conducted by the FBI at the behest of Attorney General Merrick Garland; and (2) the investigation being led by John Jack Luman Smith; Whereas, on August 11, 2023, legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives to prohibit the use of Federal funds to pay the salary of Jack Smith; Whereas ongoing efforts to remove Donald John Trump from the ballot, including the effort by the incumbent Colorado secretary of state, amount to the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans and a deliberate assault on the Nation’s electoral process; Whereas efforts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot of any State ought to be condemned fully by Americans of good will; Whereas Democrats have also gone so far as to politicize impeachment to undermine President Trump; Whereas the Democratic Party’s intention to politicize the impeachment process was made clear on July 16, 2019, when Congressman Al Green of Texas attempted to impeach President Trump for racism ; Whereas House Democrats chose again to politicize impeachment in December 2019 on the basis that President Trump allegedly withheld Ukrainian assistance unless President Zelensky of Ukraine agreed to investigate the Bidens; Whereas security assistance was delivered to the Ukrainians on September 11, 2019, without any investigation into the Bidens, which clearly contradicts the narrative of a quid pro quo arrangement; Whereas the second impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, on the basis that the President incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021, predictably failed; Whereas President Trump told a large group of supporters that day to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard ; Whereas President Trump did nothing wrong on January 6, 2021; Whereas hyperpartisanship often guided the Democratic Party’s reactions to various events during the Trump Presidency; Whereas massive protests began against President Trump upon his taking office in January 2017, with dishonest reporting lambasting his Executive Order 13769 (later superseded by Executive Order 13780) as a Muslim ban , even while Executive Order 13769 and subsequent orders did not apply to the vast majority of Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, and further included 3 countries then designated on the Department of State’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list; Whereas Democrats insisted that the elimination of Qassim Soleimani in January 2020 would lead to World War III, ignoring the fact that Soleimani was responsible for thousands of American casualties and regional unrest; Whereas the Washington Post and New York Times published allegations in June 2020, pushed by congressional Democrats, that President Trump and his administration had knowledge of Russian bounties being offered to the Taliban and Taliban affiliates for the murder of American and allied servicemembers; Whereas, in April 2021, the United States intelligence community found it only had low to moderate confidence in those allegations; Whereas an industry of fake news , spearheaded by President Trump’s political opponents in an effort to discredit him, sprang up during his Presidency; Whereas President Trump remains the most successful President in recent history, made all the more impressive in light of relentless leftist opposition to his agenda; Whereas some of those accomplishments include— (1) moving the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem after decades of inaction by previous administrations; (2) destroying the Arab consensus and brokering 4 Arab-Israeli peace accords; (3) pulling the United States out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal, and immediately applying a maximum pressure campaign against Tehran; (4) eliminating the head of the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani; (5) setting up (pre-COVID), the strongest United States economy in decades, which included— (A) 7,000,000 more jobs; (B) reducing tax burdens on Americans, nearly doubling the standard deductions for single and married persons, and cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent to bring more jobs back to the United States; (C) a boost of about $6,000 a year for middle-income families, as more than 6,000,000 United States workers received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; (D) a 3.5-percent unemployment rate; (E) 160,000,000 Americans in the workforce; (F) 7,000,000 fewer Americans on food stamps; (G) the creation of more than 1,200,000 manufacturing and construction jobs; (H) over $1,500,000,000,000 repatriated into the United States from overseas; (I) securing the United States role as the number 1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world; (J) significantly reducing the cost of regulatory compliance and eliminating 8 old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted; and (K) enjoying the support of 56 percent of Americans who said in an October 2020 poll that they were better off than they were 4 years before, in the midst of the COVID–19 pandemic; (6) becoming the first President in United States history to speak at the March for Life; (7) appointing 3 conservative Justices to the Supreme Court, who overturned the manifestly unjust decision Roe v. Wade; (8) compelling North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to commit to a $400,000,000,000 increase in defense spending; (9) rejecting leftist climate dogma and leaving the Paris Climate Agreement; (10) limiting the spread of the COVID–19 virus, saving untold numbers of Americans, by shutting down travel from China in January 2020; (11) leveling heavy tariffs against Chinese companies creating unfair advantages for themselves, and ending United States preferential treatment with Hong Kong to hold China accountable for its infringement on the autonomy of Hong Kong; (12) designating the Uyghur genocide in China; (13) developing administration policy to blacklist and sanction Chinese military companies; (14) limiting apprehensions by fully enforcing and implementing expedited removal of illegal aliens; and (15) securing the southern border and protecting United States citizens and interests by— (A) instituting national security travel bans; (B) reducing refugee resettlement; (C) stripping discretionary Federal grant funding to sanctuary cities; (D) building over 400 miles of the southern border wall; (E) entering into 3 asylum cooperation agreements with Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala to prevent asylum fraud; (F) establishing the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the Remain in Mexico policy; (G) ending catch-and-release; and (H) working with regional partners, especially Mexico, to confront human smuggling; and Whereas President Trump deserves the thanks of a Nation for his self-sacrifice and commitment to the security and welfare of the United States and the people of the United States: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that— (1) the political persecution of President Donald J. Trump is morally unjustifiable and has damaged institutional trust to an extraordinary degree; (2) the Biden administration’s weaponization of the Federal Government against Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee for President in 2024, must end; (3) those responsible for the persecution of Donald Trump within the Biden administration must be held accountable by Congress; and (4) 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.