Donald Trump doesn’t take to kindly to this….
Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
4. Few members of Congress have read the report…
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I offer these conclusions only after having read Mueller’s redacted report carefully and completely, having read or watched pertinent statements and testimony, and having discussed this matter with my staff, who thoroughly reviewed materials and provided me with further analysis.
In comparing Barr’s principal conclusions, congressional testimony, and other statements to Mueller’s report, it is clear that Barr intended to mislead the public about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s analysis and findings.
Barr’s misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice.
Under our Constitution, the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” While “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” is not defined, the context implies conduct that violates the public trust.
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.In fact, Mueller’s report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence.
Impeachment, which is a special form of indictment, does not even require probable cause that a crime (e.g., obstruction of justice) has been committed; it simply requires a finding that an official has engaged in careless, abusive, corrupt, or otherwise dishonorable conduct….
President Trump called Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) a “total lightweight” who is causing controversy solely for “the sake of getting his name out there.”
Amash is the first GOP lawmaker to say he was in favor of impeaching Trump.
Said Trump: “If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, ‘composed’ by 18 Angry Dems who hated Trump, he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION. Anyway, how do you Obstruct when there is no crime and, in fact, the crimes were committed by the other side? Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents hands!”
image…FoxNews
Amash must be planning to leave Congress.
On Amash…
Maybe…
Maybe NOT….
The Senate is STILL gonna have Trump Jr. come in for a more limited Q & A…..
Romeny is doing his thing….
Amish just has to a two step….
And support the OTHER party line stuff…
Amash is hoping to be the Libertarian Presidential nominee, so he likely is not planning to run for reelection in 2o20.
My password was stored..
The sign-in thing is fixed…
Check the post here on the update in Michigan 3rd CD….
The conservative House Freedom Caucus took an official position condemning Rep. Justin Amash’s (R-Mich.) call for impeachment on Monday evening, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told reporters.
“We had a good discussion and every single member, I think now based on who was there and our board meeting was probably over 30 members, every single member disagrees and strongly with the position Justin took over the week, and we’re focused on the now,” he said.
“I mean, look, we’re focused on the fact that what the FBI did was wrong. We think that [Attorney General William] Barr’s handled himself exactly the way the American people want the Attorney General to handle themselves, and he’s going to get to bottom of all this.”
While members did not discuss whether they should hold a vote to oust him from the powerful group he helped found, many expressed frustrations with his position….
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Amash isn’t backing down….
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Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) on Monday doubled down on his critical remarks of President Trump, detailing in a series of tweets why he thinks the case can be made that Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice.
“People who say there were no underlying crimes and therefore the president could not have intended to illegally obstruct the investigation—and therefore cannot be impeached—are resting their argument on several falsehoods,” Amash tweeted.
In a series of subsequent tweets, Amash sought to shoot down a number of prominent defenses of the president’s behavior illustrated in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report….
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The second called House”Freedom”Caucus should more appropriately be known as the House Authoritarian Caucus .
Where the Trump Cultists go to practice their hate of “libruls” and the media.
How about ‘Tea Party’ 2.0?
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) tore into Attorney General William Barr in a 25-tweet thread for his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation.
Said Amash: “Barr has deliberately misrepresented key aspects of Mueller’s report and decisions in the investigation, which has helped further the president’s false narrative about the investigation.”…
Politicalwire…
In “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Justin Amash (R-Mich.) got kind words from the person one might think the least likely to be inclined his way: Rep. Rashid Tlaib (D-Mich.)
….CHUCK TODD:
I’m curious, a fellow Michigander, Justin Amash, became the first Republican essentially to call or at least believe that it is time to have an impeachment inquiry. I know on Twitter you invited him to meet with you and sign your resolution on that. Did you meet with him? Have you spoken with him? And if you have, what did he say?
REP. RASHIDA TLAIB:
No, I haven’t. But I’ve got to tell you, I’ve worked with him in the Michigan legislature for a term. And he is somebody that truly believes the Constitution is brilliant, it’s awesome. He’s all about putting country first. I’ve known that about him for a very long time. He actually is one of the few that supported subpoenas towards the Trump administration about at least understanding what’s going on at the border with children being separated from their family. He’s one of the more courageous people that really does believe in the institution and believes in the rule of law.
CHUCK TODD:
Okay.
REP. RASHIDA TLAIB:
And I respect that very much and I continue to uplift his courage and for him to, again, put country before politics.
CHUCK TODD:
All right, Congresswoman, I’m going to leave it there. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat from Michigan. Congresswoman, thanks for coming on and sharing your views. I appreciate it.
REP. RASHIDA TLAIB:
Thank you.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/meet-press-may-26-2019-n1010416