; 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