First GOP Congressman to call for Trump's Impeachment greeted with a standing ovation at Michigan town hall

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Mod: I have bashed the Tea Party regularly on this site for their cowardice and hypocrisy in betraying their much beloved United States Constitution by supporting Trump. Then along came Justin Amash, Tea Party stalwart and the first GOP Congressman to call for Trump's impeachment. Why? Defence of just that very Constitution. Go figure.

Amash greeted with a standing ovation at Michigan town hall (CNNlink): Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan may have been prepared to deal with critics at his first town hall since publicly stating earlier this month that President Donald Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct, but instead he got a standing ovation Tuesday.

Attendees even booed and heckled a woman in a Make America Great Again hat who defended Trump, prompting Amash to step in. "Let's be respectful," he urged the crowd.

During the town hall, which went on for two hours, an hour longer than planned, Amash defended his conservative credentials -- "I'm who I said I was. I'm a principled, constitutional conservative" -- and once again brushed off a new primary challenge from Michigan state Rep. Jim Lower. "I am not concerned about it,"Amash told the crowd, adding: "And in any case, you should always do what's right."

He remains the only sitting Republican to openly say that Trump committed impeachable offenses based on his reading of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

"Clearly, things that violate the public trust are impeachable,"Amash said Tuesday, drawing applause. "I think it's really important that we do our job as Congress. That we would not allow misconduct to go undeterred."

He has not signed on to any existing / impeachment resolutions, but said Tuesday that it would be appropriate for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move ahead with an impeachment inquiry.

"She's very nervous about some of her Democrats who are in what she considers tougher districts," Amash said to a crowd of more than 700 packed into the Grand Rapids Christian High School auditorium.

"We have a job to do, and I think we owe it to the American people to represent them to ensure that the people we have in office are doing the right thing, are of good character, aren't violating the public trust." Hours before the town hall, Amash had put out a series of 25 tweets expanding on his takeaways from the Mueller report, which explored Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"In truth, Mueller's report describes concerning contacts between members of Trump's campaign and people in or connected to the Russian government,"Amash wrote on Tuesday.

Amash singled out Attorney General William Barr for his handling of the report, arguing that Barr had misrepresented Mueller's findings, including in testimony before Congress. "Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the President's false narrative to the American people. This will continue if those who have read the report do not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth," Amash tweeted.

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