Article III: Obstruction of Justice

(See articles I: Tyranny and II: Treason)

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This article was drafted based on the first article of impeachment written for Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Like Nixon, President Trump has repeatedly injured the public by obstructing justice to avoid embarrassment and reputational harm. While that resolution was never filed, the threat of impeachment was enough to force Nixon’s resignation. Should Trump and the Trump administration DOJ refuse to release the Epstein files on 19 Dec, we will update this article to include their failure to comply with legislation duly authorized by the House of Representatives.

UPDATE (December 19, 2025): The DOJ has stated publicly that they will not release the full Epstein Files to the public today. No one is above the law. This article has been updated with a second article addressing President Trump’s failure to execute the laws of the land.

UPDATE 2 (December 30, 2025): Representatives Massie, Khanna, Clyburn and Walkinshaw have all expressed interest in holding Attorney General Pam Bondi accountable via impeachment. We have updated the article to name Pam Bondi as Trump’s close subordinate and agent.

UPADATE 3 (June 26, 2026): Pamela J Bondi was fired by President Trump on April 2, 2026. She was removed from her position after articles of impeachment were filed against her by Rep. Summer Lee, PA-12. Actions specific to Bondi have been removed from this impeachment resolution. Current Attorney General Todd Blanche’s is included, and actions he has taken as deputy Attorney General reflected as such.

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H. RES _____

SECTION 1.

RESOLVED, that Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, and Todd Blanche, Attorney General of the United States, are impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the 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 J. Trump, President of the United States, and Todd Blanche, Attorney General of the United States, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against them for high crimes and misdemeanors.

ARTICLE 1: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, in violation of his constitutional oath to execute faithfully 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 constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice. These violations were conducted by and through his close subordinate and agent Todd Blanche, now Attorney General of the United States, in a plan designed to delay, impede and obstruct investigation into the President’s personal involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking crimes and to cover up, conceal, and protect those responsible, in that:

For at least three decades, Donald J. Trump maintained a warm relationship with sex trafficker and child abuser Jeffrey Epstein. For at least 10 of those years, Epstein was publicly known to abuse children, having been sentenced to 18 months jail for soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18 in June 2008. Donald J. Trump’s warm relationship with Epstein is evident in photographs of the two together at multiple social events, Trump’s own acknowledgement of their shared taste in women (with at least one shared partner between the two), Epstein making, and losing, a $10,000 wager on whether Trump’s wife was pregnant, Epstein claiming in emails that Trump spent “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of the victims of his abuse, and a drawing gifted to Epstein from Trump in January 2003 that featured a sketch of a young female and reference to a “wonderful secret” shared between the two of them.

In a September 11, 2025 release of more than 18,000 files directly from Epstein’s own estate, Trump was mentioned just 9 times. However, in a subsequent release of more than 20,000 files by the House Oversight Committee, Trump was referenced more than 1,500 times, including repeated attempts by Epstein to interest an New York Times reporter in “photos of Trump and girls in bikinis in my kitchen” and embarrassing descriptions like “so gross” and “worse in real life and up close.” The vast majority of the files in the government’s possession were supposed to be made public by Dec. 19, 2025 after Congress voted 427-1 to release the files in full. However less than 2% of five million files have been made public to date, and the DoJ has both tampered with the released files and inserted false files into the release.

Despite campaigning in 2024 on the public release of the U.S. Government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein, Donald J. Trump’s intimate knowledge of the depth and breadth of his nearly 40-year relationship with Jeffrey Epstein spurred him to abuse the powers of his office in an effort to avoid embarrassment and reputational harm.

Donald J. Trump, using the powers of his high office, and through his close subordinates and agents, including Todd Blanche, now Attorney General of the United States, engaged in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the release of the files and to cover up, conceal, and protect the elite social network that ignored or condoned the sexual abuse of thousands of children by Jeffrey Epstein, his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, and their associates.

The means used to implement this course of conduct or plan included one or more of the following:

Using the powers of his office to conceal the existence and the scope of Donald J. Trump’s activities as a member of Epstein’s network by misusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, directing roughly 1,000 FBI officials to devote 3,000 hours of overtime at a cost of more than $850,000 in taxpayer money to reviewing the Epstein Files in order to flag items that mention Donald J. Trump.
Misusing the Department of Justice, an agency of the United States, causing individuals duly tried and convicted to expect favored treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony by directing DOJ agents to interview and record Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell (who was tried and convicted of both securing children and sexually abusing children with and for Jeffrey Epstein). She stated that “the President was never inappropriate with anybody” during her July 24th interview with then Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Shortly afterwards, by August 2, 2025, Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security prison.
Subverting the rule of law with repeated and ongoing efforts to make the grand jury transcripts from Maxwell’s criminal proceedings public. The second judge to reject these attempts to acquire grand jury transcripts, U.S. District Judge Engelmeyer stated that one might “conclude that the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency’ but at diversion — aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such.” The Trump administration’s effort to misdirect public opinion with this information in order to establish Donald J. Trump’s role in the Epstein files extrajudicially interferes or endeavors to interfere with the conduct of lawfully authorized federal judges.
Making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that:
- Donald J. Trump was not a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein
- That the relevant files on Epstein’s criminal actions and network did not exist
- That allegations of misconduct on the part of Donald J. Trump in association with Jeffrey Epstein’s widespread practice of sexually abusing children was a “fake narrative” and further, that Donald J. Trump was not involved in such misconduct.

Donald J. Trump has sustained these false allegations to the present day, posting to Truth Social on December 26, 2025 that “DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired hoax.”

In all of this, Donald J. Trump and Todd Blanche have acted in a manner contrary to their trust as officers of the United States government and subversive of constitutional 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 Donald J. Trump, and Todd Blanche by such conduct, warrant impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

ARTICLE 2: ELEVATING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ABOVE CONGRESS

In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, through his close subordinate and agent, Todd Blanche, Attorney General of the United States, contrary to their oaths to execute faithfully the office of President of the United States and the office of the Attorney General, respectively, and their oaths to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States to the best of their ability, and in violation of their constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, have failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by federal law established by Congress on November 19, 2025, willfully violating Public Law No: 119-38. The Epstein Files Transparency Act required that the unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’ Offices be made publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format by December 19, 2025, without regard for personal embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity for public figures, including government officials. Upon his assumption of the office in April 2026, Attorney General Todd Blanche has made no effort to rectify the situation and the Department of Justice remains in violation of Public Law NO: 119-38.

These materials were deemed necessary by Congress in order to pursue justice for survivors of Epstein’s abuse and resolve by direct evidence fundamental, factual questions relating to Presidential direction, knowledge or approval of actions taken by Jeffrey Epstein in relation to the sexual abuse of children. In refusing to produce these materials, continuously modifying the released materials to include the surreptitious removal of materials previously released and the introduction of false materials intended to mislead and deceive the American public, Donald J. Trump and Todd Blanche have substituted their judgment as to what materials were necessary for the inquiry interposing the powers of the Presidency against the federal law—thereby placing the executive branch above Congress in authority and violating the fundamental principle of co-equal branches of government as described by the Constitution of the United States.

In their failure to faithfully execute the laws of this nation, Donald J. Trump and Todd Blanche have acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and his trust as Attorney General, and subversive of constitutional 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, Donald J Trump and Todd Blanche, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

SECTION 2.

Resolved, that managers on the part of the House to conduct the impeachment trial against Donald J. Trump shall be appointed by the Clerk of the House in accordance with a letter to the Clerk naming the persons to be appointed and signed by the minority leader. Provided, that the number of managers so named shall not exceed seven. In the event of resignation, vacancy or incapacity among the managers, replacement managers may be appointed in like manner.

Furthermore, the Clerk is directed that a message be sent to the Senate to inform the Senate of these appointments, and that the managers so appointed may, in connection with the preparation and the conduct of the trial, exhibit the article of impeachment to the Senate and take all other actions necessary, which may include the following:

(1) Employing legal, clerical, and other necessary assistants and incurring such other expenses as may be necessary, to be paid from amounts available to the Committee on the Judiciary under applicable expense resolutions or from the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives.

(2) Sending for persons and papers and filing with the Secretary of the Senate, on the part of the House of Representatives, any pleadings in conjunction with or subsequent to, the exhibition of the article of impeachment that the managers consider necessary.

In the conduct of the impeachment trial and any matters incidental thereto, the managers named pursuant to this section shall not be directed by, report to, removable by, or in any way obstructed by the Speaker, or by any House committee or committee chair, and no resolution to the contrary shall be in order for the duration of the 119th Congress unless introduced by at least two thirds of the whole number of Representatives.