“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,” Representative Justin Amash wrote on Twitter.
Republican Representative Justin Amash blasted Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump in a lengthy thread posted to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, accusing the nation’s top prosecutor of misleading Congress and the public.
“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,” the conservative lawmaker explained.
Going on to lay out quotes from Mueller’s report and detail the actions of the attorney general in defense of Trump, Amash argued that Barr's priority was to protect Trump. While highlighting how Mueller detailed allegations that Trump may have obstructed justice by interfering in the investigation, the Republican representative also pointed to “concerning contacts between members of Trump’s campaign and people in or connected to the Russian government.
Democrats, and some Republicans, have been highly critical of Barr’s handling of the report’s release. Mueller also took issue with how the attorney general handled the document, writing at least two letters to Barr urging him to release large portions of the document shortly after it was submitted.
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