Amash accuses Barr of deliberately misrepresenting Mueller’s report to protect Trump

The Washington Post: Rep. Justin Amash, the sole congressional Republican to call for President Trump’s impeachment, took aim at Attorney General William P. Barr on Tuesday, saying that he had deliberately misrepresented key aspects of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report “to further the president’s false narrative about the investigation.”

In more than two dozen tweets, Amash (Mich.) detailed multiple objections to how Barr had handled Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, starting with a memo to Congress in late March that summarized Mueller’s key findings and relayed that he decided not to pursue obstruction-of-justice charges against Trump.

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