In April 2026, a rumor spread that U.S. Rep. John Larson, a Democrat from Connecticut, filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Several Facebook posts relayed the rumor, and one X post claimed Larson had filed 13 articles of impeachment. A post on X announced the story as "breaking" (archived):
Snopes readers also searched the website to check whether the information was true.
It was. On April 6, Larson submitted House Resolution 1155 to impeach Trump on high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution was sent to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
The next day, Larson announced he had done so in a statement on his website. In the statement, he also called for Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, which outlines the procedure the vice president and the Cabinet must follow to declare the president incapable of fulfilling his duties.
Larson's resolution included 13 articles of impeachment. He accused Trump of usurping the power of Congress to declare war, "murdering scores of putative but unproved drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific" and committing war crimes. He further accused Trump of "committing piracy" to steal Venezuelan oil. Larson said the war on Iran also was illegal.
Other reasons to impeach Trump, in Larson's filed articles, included illegally militarizing domestic law enforcement, ordering unlawful detentions and deportations, retaliating against protected speech or association, abusing his power to pardon, illegally defunding programs designed to help and protect U.S. citizens and the environment, illegally refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress, illegally persecuting political opponents and violating the 14th Amendment by attempting to deny birthright citizenship to certain children.
Meanwhile, the statement on Larson's website appeared to imply that Trump's call to "annihilate an entire civilization" was enough of a reason to invoke the 25th Amendment. As Snopes previously reported, Trump said in an April 7 post on his social network, Truth Social: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
"He's becoming more unstable by the day," Larson said in his statement. "His profane and sacrilegious Easter Sunday and subsequent threats, including 'a whole civilization will die' and 'open the Strait…or you'll be living in hell' not only foreshadow war crimes, but put our security at risk."
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