GOP Rep. Justin Amash tells constituents 'things that violate the public trust are impeachable'
He is the only sitting Republican lawmaker to come forward and say President Trump engaged in impeachable conduct, and on Tuesday, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) made his case to constituents during a town hall in Grand Rapids.
Amash said it's clear "things that violate the public trust are impeachable," and it's "really important that we do our job as Congress, that we would not allow misconduct to go undeterred." He said he was "appalled" by the conduct described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and lawmakers "have a job to do, and I think we owe it to the American people to represent them to ensure that the people we have in office are doing the right thing, are of good character, aren't violating the public trust." Throughout the event, the audience applauded Amash, and at one point, he received a standing ovation, CNN reports.
Before the town hall, Amash tweeted about the Mueller report, saying that Attorney General William Barr misled the public and Congress about its content. "Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president's false narrative to the American people," Amash said. "This will continue if those who have read the report do not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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