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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextTHE HANDLING OF THE 2019 UKRAINE WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT, CALLING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INITIATE AN INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION
OF THE MATTER, AND DECLARING THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J.
TRUMP BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LACKS LEGITIMACY
Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:
S. Res. 682
Whereas, on April 13, 2026, Director of National
Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified and released
documents and transcripts revealing serious procedural
failures and concealments in the handling of the August 2019
whistleblower complaint regarding President Trump's July 25,
2019, telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky;
Whereas, the complaint, which was filed by an analyst of
the Central Intelligence Agency who had no firsthand
knowledge of the aforementioned telephone call, relied
entirely on second- and third-hand accounts, with key
witnesses admitting the alleged quid pro quo was “clear only
in hindsight” and required “reading between the lines”;
Whereas, although the whistleblower self-disclosed
significant potential biases, including registration as a
member of the Democratic Party, close professional work with
then-Vice President Joe Biden on Ukraine matters (including
travel to Ukraine with Vice President Biden and participation
in discussions on Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy
Lutsenko's corruption), and personal grievances stemming from
his service on the National Security Council during the first
Trump presidency, former Inspector General of the
Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson redacted or concealed
these deeper conflicts from investigators from the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives during his testimony on 2019 in which he
disclosed only limited information;
Whereas, the whistleblower admitted to misleading
investigators about prior contacts with Democratic staff of
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House
of Representatives and requested that the complaint be hidden
from Republican members of the committee;
Whereas, in 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden publicly
boasted of withholding $1,000,000,000 in United States loan
guarantees to pressure Ukraine into firing Prosecutor General
Viktor Shokin, an action that occurred while Biden's son
Hunter served on the board of Burisma Holdings, raising
legitimate questions about potential conflicts of interest
that the whistleblower's complaint sought to shield from
scrutiny;
Whereas, these concealed biases, procedural irregularities,
and reliance on unsubstantiated claims formed the very basis
of the 2019 impeachment proceedings, which resulted in the
impeachment of President Trump by the House of
Representatives on December 18, 2019: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate—
(1) condemns the concealment of material bias information
and the use of a flawed complaint to initiate impeachment
proceedings against a sitting President;
(2) calls upon the Department of Justice to promptly
initiate a thorough, independent investigation into the
handling of the 2019 Ukraine whistleblower complaint,
including potential violations related to false statements,
improper redactions, abuse of the whistleblower process, and
coordination with congressional staff;
(3) urges the Attorney General to pursue appropriate
criminal prosecutions to the extent warranted by the
evidence, consistent with the rule of law and without regard
to political affiliation, to restore public confidence in the
integrity of the intelligence community and congressional
oversight;
(4) declares that the 2019 impeachment of President Donald
J. Trump by the House of Representatives, which was
predicated on a concealed and deficient complaint, lacks
legitimacy and the facts and circumstances upon which
Articles of Impeachment were based neither met the burden of
proving that President Trump committed “high Crimes and
Misdemeanors” nor established that President Trump engaged
in “insurrection of rebellion against the United States”;
and
(5) commends Director of National Intelligence Tulsi
Gabbard for her transparency and accountability in
declassifying these materials and sharing the truth with the
American people.