Lone GOP Trump impeachment advocate Justin Amash tells town hall some GOP colleagues secretly agree
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) held his first public appearance Tuesday night since arguing on Twitter that President Trump has committed clearly impeachable offenses, based on his close reading of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. The hundreds of constituents who gathered to hear Amash at a two-hour town hall at Grand Rapids Christian High School gave him several standing ovations as he laid out the case for impeaching Trump he continues to make on Twitter. Amash, a 39-year-old lawyer first elected to Congress in 2010, started by explaining what impeachment is and isn't.
The criticism of his comments from "so-called" House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is indicative of "the kind of 'leadership' we now have in Congress," Amash said. "I read the Mueller report, I'm sure he did not read it. I stated what it actually says, and he resorted to ad hominem attacks." He added he thinks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) doesn't support impeachment because she's "concerned with her members in tougher districts" and "with protecting her majority." But "a lot of people think I'm right about the Mueller report," he said. "They just won't say it. A lot of Republicans."
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"Over the evening, as it became clear that most of the audience supported his impeachment stance, Amash sought out critical questions," The Washington Post reports. One Trump supporter asked Amash, eventually, why "he's become a Democrat." Amash said he hasn't. Republicans under Trump no longer care "about limited government," he said. "But I haven't changed. I'm who I said I was. I'm a principled, constitutional conservative." Peter Weber
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