Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) on Tuesday fired off dozens of tweets to support his earlier contention that President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached.
In the flurry of tweets, Amash took aim at Attorney General William Barr for selling a "false narrative" about special counsel Robert Mueller's findings.
"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," Amash wrote. "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."
"Barr’s letter doesn’t mention those issues when explaining why Mueller chose not to make a prosecutorial decision. He instead selectively quotes Mueller in a way that makes it sound—falsely—as if Mueller’s decision stemmed from legal/factual issues specific to Trump’s actions," Amash continued.
The congressman goes on to point out numerous ways that the attorney general has acted more like a personal attorney for the president.
"Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president’s false narrative to the American people," Amash insisted. "This will continue if those who have read the report do not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth."
Read the tweets below.
Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented key aspects of Mueller’s report and decisions in the investig… https://t.co/r95UsBAXZ7— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061002.0
After receiving Mueller’s report, Barr wrote and released a letter on March 24 describing Barr’s own decision not t… https://t.co/z524ad0aDJ— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061003.0
Mueller’s report says he chose not to decide whether Trump broke the law because there’s an official DoJ opinion th… https://t.co/opLJZODSh1— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061003.0
Barr’s letter doesn’t mention those issues when explaining why Mueller chose not to make a prosecutorial decision.… https://t.co/RHEVsebXqV— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061004.0
But, in fact, Mueller finds considerable evidence that several of Trump’s actions detailed in the report meet the e… https://t.co/2u8vXJ3eS1— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061004.0
In noting why Barr thought the president’s intent in impeding the investigation was insufficient to establish obstr… https://t.co/cwBu2bxhwq— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061005.0
Barr quotes Mueller saying the evidence didn’t establish that Trump was personally involved in crimes related to Ru… https://t.co/NxjGUE12Ib— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061005.0
But Mueller’s quote is taken from a section in which he describes other improper motives Trump could have had and n… https://t.co/egRiLJX7uq— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061006.0
As a result of Barr’s March 24 letter, the public and Congress were misled. Mueller himself notes this in a March 2… https://t.co/KtJ15in0g1— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061006.0
Mueller: “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens… https://t.co/tWN1FKNWO1— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061006.0
To “alleviate the misunderstandings that have arisen,” Mueller urged the release of the report’s introductions and… https://t.co/PDfOU0A8nE— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061007.0
Barr declined; he allowed the confusion to fester and only released the materials three weeks later with the full r… https://t.co/EfQdytsuBO— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061007.0
Barr was asked about reports “that members of [Mueller’s] team are frustrated…with the limited information included… https://t.co/9gTz7ge2tQ— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061007.0
Barr absurdly replied: “No, I don’t…I suspect that they probably wanted more put out.” Yet Mueller had directly rai… https://t.co/eghR7hgAi6— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061008.0
In subsequent statements and testimony, Barr used further misrepresentations to help build the president’s false na… https://t.co/268oYKQmeM— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061008.0
Barr notes that Mueller did not “find any conspiracy to violate U.S. law involving Russia-linked persons and any pe… https://t.co/a42y78ei9l— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061008.0
But whether there’s enough evidence for a conviction of a specific crime which Mueller thought was appropriate to c… https://t.co/FdzQrwx5D7— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061009.0
In truth, Mueller’s report describes concerning contacts between members of Trump’s campaign and people in or conne… https://t.co/FWl4yz18Z1— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061009.0
For instance, Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner took a meeting with a Russian lawyer whom Trump Jr. had b… https://t.co/JKUqoI1tuj— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061010.0
It’s wrong to suggest that the fact that Mueller did not choose to indict anyone for this means there wasn’t a basi… https://t.co/Vg1LFPhVw8— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061010.0
Barr says the White House “fully cooperated” with the investigation and that Mueller “never sought” or “pushed” to… https://t.co/GHFDl7ZNLE— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061010.0
The report says the president’s counsel was told that interviewing him was “vital” to Mueller’s investigation and t… https://t.co/pGavJhCfCZ— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061011.0
The president instead gave written answers to questions submitted by the special counsel. Those answers are often i… https://t.co/xyPT3xMfly— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061011.0
Ultimately, the special counsel “recogniz[ed] that the President would not be interviewed voluntarily” and chose no… https://t.co/UyAi4qrAMK— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061011.0
Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president’s false narrative to the American people. This… https://t.co/sQATYVr72T— Justin Amash (@Justin Amash)1559061012.0
