Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) has read and recognized the significance of the Mueller Report. Then he has spoken truthfully about it. Because of the ‘R’ next to his name, this is remarkable: an impressive exception, though it seems unlikely to change much of anything.*
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Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report.
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President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
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Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
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Few members of Congress have read the report.
*Update: Mitt Romney, the Republican Senator (from a Red state that is not all-in with Trump) who has been most critical of Trump, has weighed in on Amash’s comments:
Sen. Romney disagrees with Amash on Trump impeachment, saying that the Mueller report "did not suggest to me this was a time to call for impeachment." pic.twitter.com/Ij6JcYaC2S
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) May 19, 2019
“My own view is that Justin Amash has reached a different conclusion than I have. I respect him. I think it’s a courageous statement, but …” . . .
“As I read the report, I was troubled by it, was very disappointed for a number of reasons. But it did not suggest to me that it was time to call for impeachment. . . .
… I think a number of things that were done were really, really troubling and unfortunate and distressing. Clearly the number of times that there were items of dishonesty, misleading the American public and the media – those are things that really you would not want to see from the highest office in the land. . . .
I don’t think impeachment is the right way to go.”
(Image from the Congressman’s Twitter page.)