Sen. Mitt Romney disagrees with GOP Rep. Justin Amash’s conclusion on President Trump's “impeachable conduct”
Washington Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that he disagrees with Rep. Justin Amash on the Michigan Republican's recent comments that President Donald Trump's conduct has met the"threshold for impeachment."
"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," Romney told CNN's Jake Tapper on"State of the Union." "The American people just aren't there," he added."The Senate is certainly not there, either.
— Donald J. Trump May 19, 2019 The rebuke from Trump marked the latest separation between Amash and his Republican colleagues, who have largely supported Trump in the face of the Mueller investigation. Amash, a libertarian conservative, was elected to Congress in the 2010 midterms during the Tea Party movement and went on to become a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative bloc of Republicans that have sought to move the party to the right on a host of issues.
• CNN found 77 instances of lies and false assertions in Mueller's report. Trump told the greatest number• What Trump associates told the public vs. what they told MuellerAmash, in his comments on Saturday, said the Mueller report contained"multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice." Romney, who was sharply critical of Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, stopped far short of saying the same.
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