; Whereas, on September 24, 2019, the Speaker of the House announced that the House of Representatives would commence an impeachment inquiry pursuant to its constitutional authority under article I, section 2, clause 5 to determine whether in connection with the July 25, 2019, telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine, the President of the United States has engaged in conduct constituting Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes or Misdemeanors as specified in article II, section 4; Whereas, on October 22, 2019, bemoaning his fate, but not regretting his conduct, the President of the United States tweeted that All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here—a lynching, thus falsely drawing a moral equivalence between the exercise of the impeachment power expressly and solely conferred on the House of Representatives by the Constitution and lynching, the most heinous act of domestic terrorism and symbolic of one of the darkest and most shameful periods in America’s past; Whereas the statement asserted in the President’s tweet is false, inflammatory, racially offensive, unbecoming the Nation’s Chief Magistrate but consistent with prior statements the President has made to stoke to 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 5 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.