Justin Amash
Trump-hating GOP Michigan Rep. Justin Amash fired off 25 tweets Tuesday morning attacking Attorney General Bill Barr.
Amash received a lot of attention recently after he tweeted out that President Trump should be impeached.
Justin Amash became the first GOP congressman or senator to call for Trump to be impeached.
Amash also accused Attorney General Bill Barr of misleading the public about the findings of the Mueller report — and he’s at it again.
This guy is completely unhinged. Bill Barr released the entire Mueller report over a month ago, save for the grand jury material, and he’s still whining about the process.
Attorney General 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.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
Mueller’s report says he chose not to decide whether Trump broke the law because there’s an official DoJ opinion that indicting a sitting president is unconstitutional, and because of concerns about impacting the president’s ability to govern and pre-empting possible impeachment.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
But, in fact, Mueller finds considerable evidence that several of Trump’s actions detailed in the report meet the elements of obstruction, and Mueller’s constitutional and prudential issues with indicting a sitting president would preclude indictment regardless of what he found.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
Barr quotes Mueller saying the evidence didn’t establish that Trump was personally involved in crimes related to Russian election interference, and Barr then claims that Mueller found that fact relevant to whether the president had the intent to obstruct justice.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
As a result of Barr’s March 24 letter, the public and Congress were misled. Mueller himself notes this in a March 27 letter to Barr, saying that Barr’s letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.”
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
To “alleviate the misunderstandings that have arisen,” Mueller urged the release of the report’s introductions and executive summaries, which he had told Barr “accurately summarize [Mueller’s] Office’s work and conclusions.”
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
Barr was asked about reports “that members of [Mueller’s] team are frustrated…with the limited information included in your March 24th letter, that it does not adequately or accurately necessarily portray the report’s findings. Do you know what they’re referencing with that?”
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
In subsequent statements and testimony, Barr used further misrepresentations to help build the president’s false narrative that the investigation was unjustified.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
But whether there’s enough evidence for a conviction of a specific crime which Mueller thought was appropriate to charge is a different and much higher standard than whether the people whom Mueller investigated had done anything worthy of investigation.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
For instance, Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner took a meeting with a Russian lawyer whom Trump Jr. had been told worked for the Russian government and would provide documents to “incriminate Hillary,” as part of the Russian government’s “support for Mr. Trump.”
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
Barr says the White House “fully cooperated” with the investigation and that Mueller “never sought” or “pushed” to get more from the president, but the report says Mueller unsuccessfully sought an interview with the president for over a year.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
The president instead gave written answers to questions submitted by the special counsel. Those answers are often incomplete or unresponsive. Mueller found them “inadequate” and again sought to interview the president.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
Amash finished his unhinged tweetstorm by accusing Barr of using his position to sell Trump’s “false narrative to the American people.”
Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president’s false narrative to the American people. This will continue if those who have read the report do not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 28, 2019
Amash and his family have a vested interest in China — he must really be upset over President Trump’s trade war with China.
In 2010 Rep. Amash’s Democratic challenger cut ads accusing Amash and his family of owning factories in China.
In response Amash told MLive:
The family’s company has staff in China to “facilitate trade” and “make sure we get what we’re looking for,” but said it has no manufacturing plant there.
According to his financial disclosure forms, Amash is a co-owner of Dynamic Source International, a Chinese company that supplies Michigan Industrial Tools Inc., his father’s Wyoming-based business.
Dynamic Source International is based in YUHANG DISTRICT HANGZHOU ZHEJIANG CHINA.
No wonder Amash is such a Trump-hater and wants him out of the White House. Trump’s trade policies will help American workers but may not benefit the Amash family business– especially their business interests in China.
