Justin Amash Doubles Down on Trump Impeachment in Tweetstorm
Michigan Rep. Justin Amash doubled down on impeaching President Trump Monday, explaining why he thinks the case can be made that Trump obstructed 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 claimed in the first of a series of tweets.
Amash then continued:
In fact, there were many crimes revealed by the investigation, some of which were charged, and some of which were not but are nonetheless described in Mueller’s report.
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In fact, obstruction of justice does not require the prosecution of an underlying crime, and there is a logical reason for that. Prosecutors might not charge a crime precisely *because* obstruction of justice denied them timely access to evidence that could lead to a prosecution.
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If an underlying crime were required, then prosecutors could charge obstruction of justice only if it were unsuccessful in completely obstructing the investigation. This would make no sense.
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3. They imply the president should be permitted to use any means to end what he claims to be a frivolous investigation, no matter how unreasonable his claim.
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In fact, the president could not have known whether every single person Mueller investigated did or did not commit any crimes.
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4. They imply “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” requires charges of a statutory crime or misdemeanor.
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Amash is a closet Democrat and has a history of bucking the party and aligning himself with Democrats.
Trump called Republican Representative Justin Amash “a total lightweight” and “a loser” on Twitter, a day after the Michigan lawmaker said the Mueller report showed that the Republican president “engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” Reuters reports.
Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy. If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, “composed” by 18 Angry Dems who hated Trump,....
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Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy. 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!
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Amash’s pro-impeachment stance earned him an immediate GOP primary challenger, via Reuters:
The first Republican in Congress to say openly that President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses drew a 2020 election challenge on Monday from within his own party, the Detroit Free Press reported.
In a case of swift political retribution, Representative Justin Amash, just two days after making his remarks about Trump, faced a Republican primary bid from Jim Lower, a Michigan state legislator who described himself as “pro-Trump.”
Posting a photo of himself on Facebook in front of a “Trump 2020” sign, Lower, according to the newspaper, said: “Congressman Justin Amash tweets yesterday calling for President Trump’s impeachment show how out of touch he is … He must be replaced and I am going to do it.”
Rep. Justin Amash is the first Republican in Congress to accuse President Trump of impeachable conduct. Now a primary challenger wants to unseat him cbsn.ws/2JwlCU6
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It’s intoxicating when a guy like @justinamash suddenly finds the Left singing his praises. He thinks it’s overdue recognition for his deep thinking and principled leadership! He has no idea they view him as a useful idiot, to be discarded when he fails to serve their purposes
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