Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on Monday became the first member of Congress to introduce legislation to repudiate the 2019 Democrat-led House vote to impeach Donald Trump, declaring evidence newly declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showed the vote to remove the president more than six years ago "lacks legitimacy."

Scott's move came after Just the News reported a week ago that documents declassified by Gabbard showed Congress and Trump's legal team were kept from evidence showing the whistleblower whose allegations about Ukraine policy prompted the impeachment had the "potential for bias," misled investigators in his first report and only had hearsay evidence to back up his allegations.

Scott's resolution asks the Senate to consider "condemning the handling of the 2019 Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint, calling for the Department of Justice to initiate an investigation and possible prosecution of the matter, and declaring the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump by the House of Representatives lacks legitimacy."

The resolution also stated that the House vote to impeach Trump in December 2019 "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.'"

You can read the full resolution here.

In an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast, Scott said he considered the 2019 impeachment trial of Trump to be "complete BS" but that the new evidence showed the president, his legal team and the public were all denied a fair proceeding because exculpatory evidence that undercut his chief accuser was withheld.

"It was a complete abuse of process," Scott told Just the News. "And I want, if there's any fraud found, any wrongdoing found, I want, I want these people prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

The resolution urges the Justice Department 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;"
• "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."

The resolution also praised Gabbard for granting Just the News' request to release the long secret memos and creating "transparency and accountability in declassifying these materials and sharing the truth with the American people."