And now there is one.
Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan has become the first Republican congressman to accuse President Trump of “impeachable conduct” for obstructing justice in the Russia probe.
“President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” the Tea Party conservative said.
Amash also accused Attorney General William Barr of “deliberately misrepresenting” special counsel Robert Mueller’s bombshell report in a lengthy Twitter thread.
Echoing complaints from his Democratic colleagues, Amash said Barr used “sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice.”
House Democrats have held Barr in contempt for refusing to testify about Mueller’s report and refusing to hand over the full report and evidence.
Amash, who represents a rural Michigan district, is the only Republican to break ranks with the party’s call that the nation should move on from the Trump scandal.
First elected in the Tea Party wave of 2010, Amash has toyed with running for president as a libertarian.
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