Impeachment Report: The House Intelligence Committee's Investigative Report on Donald Trump and Ukraine (English)

Key Chapter Title List

1. The President Forced the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Out of Office
2. The President Handed Ukraine Matters Over to Giuliani and the "Three Musketeers"
3. The President Froze Military Aid to Ukraine
4. The President's Meeting with the Ukrainian President Was Conditioned on Announcing Investigations
5. The President Asked the Ukrainian President to Interfere in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election by Investigating the Biden Family and 2016 Election Interference
6. The President Wanted Ukraine to Publicly Announce the Investigations
7. The President's Conditioning of Military Aid and a White House Meeting on Announcing Investigations Raised Alarms
8. The President's Plan Was Exposed
9. Congress's Constitutional Powers of Oversight and Impeachment
10. The President's Comprehensive Refusal to Cooperate
11. The President Refused to Provide Any Subpoenaed Documents
12. The President Refused to Allow Senior Aides to Testify

Document Introduction

This report is the formal product of the impeachment inquiry conducted by the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in coordination with the Committees on Oversight and Reform and Foreign Affairs, pursuant to House Resolution 660, regarding the conduct of the 45th President, Donald J. Trump. The report aims to present the evidence obtained during the investigation and detail the factual course of events concerning the President's alleged abuse of power, endangerment of national security, and obstruction of the congressional investigation.

The report's core findings focus on a series of pressure actions President Trump exerted on the Ukrainian government to seek personal political benefit, particularly for his 2020 re-election campaign. The investigation indicates that the President established an "informal channel" through his personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and appointed officials (the so-called "Three Musketeers": Energy Secretary Rick Perry, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, and Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker). The central goal of this channel was to pressure Ukraine's new President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to publicly announce two investigations: one targeting the President's political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden's connection to the Ukrainian company Burisma; the other concerning a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

To achieve this goal, the report details the process by which the President explicitly linked two important official acts—a White House meeting and a $391 million package of critical military aid to Ukraine that had received bipartisan congressional approval—to Ukraine's public announcement of the aforementioned investigations. Evidence shows that the President ordered the freezing of military aid in late July 2019, an action that contradicted the national security consensus of all relevant government agencies and was done without a legitimate explanation. Simultaneously, the White House meeting was repeatedly delayed until Ukraine met the President's political demands.

The second part of the report systematically outlines the unprecedented and comprehensive obstruction of this congressional impeachment inquiry by President Trump and his administration. This includes the President invoking so-called "absolute immunity" to refuse cooperation with the investigation, directing all executive branch agencies and officials to ignore congressional subpoenas and refuse to provide any documents, and prohibiting current and former senior officials (including the Acting White House Chief of Staff, former National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, etc.) from testifying. The report concludes that this conduct, aimed at completely obstructing the House's exercise of its constitutional "sole Power of Impeachment," poses a grave threat to the constitutional order of separation of powers and checks and balances.

This report is based on over 100 hours of closed-door testimony from 17 witnesses, public hearings from 12 witnesses, and a substantial volume of text messages and communication records. Despite facing comprehensive obstruction from the administration, numerous current and former officials provided crucial testimony in accordance with legal procedures. The report ultimately finds that the President's actions placed his personal political interests above the national interest, sought foreign interference in the U.S. electoral process, compromised national security, and seriously obstructed the congressional investigation. This report has been submitted to the House Judiciary Committee for its consideration on whether to initiate articles of impeachment.