; Whereas the recent statements of the President are inaccurate and offensive but consistent with prior statements he has made to stoke division, discord, and disharmony among the American people; Whereas the current President of the United States burnished his political reputation by claiming falsely for more than five years that his predecessor was born in Kenya and not the United States and thus was an illegitimate President; Whereas the current President of the United States launched his 2016 campaign for the Presidency said of persons from Mexico seeking to immigrate to the United States: They re bringing drugs. They re bringing crime. They’re rapists. ; Whereas the current President of the United States claimed that a Hispanic Federal jurist could not preside over a court proceeding to which he was a defendant accused of civil fraud because He’s a Mexican ; Whereas in January 2018, the current President of the United States is reported to have inquired of his advisors: Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? , referring to persons from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South America; Whereas, on August 15, 2017, the current President of the United States said he regarded as some very fine people the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and Ku Klux Klansmen who descended on the peaceful community of Charlottesville, Virginia, to advocate racism and who were met by peaceful counterprotesters; Whereas in his continuous and determined effort to exacerbate ethnic tensions and racial divisions in the body politic, the current President of the United States is revealing himself to be an unwitting instrument of the plan hatched in Moscow by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin to interfere in the 2016 Presidential campaign to help elect his preferred candidate and sow discord and division among the American people