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Washington(CNN) Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash said Saturday he had concluded President Donald Trump committed "impeachable conduct" and accused Attorney General William Barr of intentionally misleading the public.
Amash's comments recommending Congress pursue obstruction of justice charges against Trump were the first instance of a sitting Republican in Congress calling for Trump's impeachment.
Amash is a rare GOP critic of Trump and previously said Trump's conduct in pressuring then-FBI Director James Comey could merit impeachment. In a Twitter thread on Saturday, Amash said he believed "few members of Congress even read" special counsel Robert Mueller's report and that the report itself established "multiple examples" of Trump committing obstruction of justice.
"Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment," Amash said in a string of messages on Twitter.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/18/politics/justin-amash-trump-impeachable-conduct/index.html
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Blues Heron
(5,938 posts)Still, maybe the worm has turned here.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I haven't read all of it either. Just the first 100 pages or so.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Siwsan
(26,268 posts)Perhaps that was possible, once in the dim past, but now it makes one sound more like a malevolent unicorn.