Amash Accuses Barr of Misrepresenting Mueller Report

GOP Representative Justin Amash is the first GOP congressman to come out in favor of impeachment for President Trump. Now, the congressman is accusing Attorney General Barr of misrepresenting the Mueller report in Trump’s favor.

According to Politico:

Rep. Justin Amash, who earlier this month became the first Republican member of Congress to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, took aim at Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday — charging that the nation’s top law enforcement officer has “used his position to sell the president’s false narrative to the American people.”

In a 25-post Twitter spree, the Michigan lawmaker accused Barr of having “deliberately misrepresented” the findings of Robert Mueller’s investigation in a March 24 letter to Congress summarizing the special counsel’s findings.

Amash wrote online Tuesday that Barr’s letter “selectively quotes and summarizes points in Mueller’s report in misleading ways,” and asserted that “the public and Congress were misled” as a result of the attorney general’s initial four-page summary.

Amash admonished Barr for not complying with Mueller’s request — articulated in a March 27 letter from the special counsel to the attorney general — to release the introductions and executive summaries of Mueller’s report.

The stance taken by Amash has drawn backlash from colleagues. Last week the House Freedom Caucus formally condemned the lawmaker who is a member of the caucus.


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