Rep. Justin Amash said that President Trump committed impeachable offenses during the course of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

The Michigan Republican also accused Attorney General William Barr of misleading the public as to Mueller’s findings from his investigation into Russian interference in the 2017 presidential election.

In a series of tweets posted Saturday, Amash, who has a reputation as an iconoclast within the Republican conference in the House of Representatives, said that Trump’s actions reached the threshold for impeachment. The Michigan Republican said he reached his conclusions about Trump and Barr after “carefully and completely” reading the public version of Mueller’s report and consulting with staff.

“Contrary to Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” wrote Amash, who said he believes that Trump obstructed justice during the course of the investigation.

“Mueller’s report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence,” Amash wrote.



In fact, Mueller’s report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence. — Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 18, 2019



Amash also said partisanship threatened to undermine the Constitution and role that Congress plays under it, and expressed concern that it was eroding the system of checks and balances laid out by the country's founding fathers.

