The first Republican legislator said that Trump had had impeccable behavior

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Representative Justin Amash, a staunch critic of President Donald Trump, became the first Republican legislator on Saturday to say that the president had behaved in an irreproachable manner.

The report of the special advocate Robert Mueller on the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election reveals that Trump's is engaged in specific actions and has adopted a behavior that meets the threshold of indictment, "said Amash, who would have considered presenting himself as libertarian against Trump. in the election of 2020, wrote on Twitter.

Mueller's report "identifies many examples of behavior satisfying all elements of the obstruction of justice, and no doubt anyone who is not the President of the United States would be indicted on the such evidence, "wrote Amash.

Trump said that Mueller's report concluded with the absence of obstruction of justice. Mueller's report made no formal conclusion on this issue, leaving the question to Congress.

Amash also wrote that "it is clear" that Attorney General William Barr intended to mislead the public about Mueller's report in his findings and his testimony before Congress .

In his letter to Congress, Barr indicated that he and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, had determined that there was insufficient evidence to establish that the President had obstructed justice or illegally hindered the investigation.

Amash's comments echoed the conclusions of many Democrats. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said on May 8 that Trump was about to impeach his efforts to thwart Congressional subpoenas and hamper legislators' efforts to oversee his administration.

Nevertheless, Democrats are divided over the dismissal and Pelosi also said the impeachment procedure would be a "source of division" for the country.

The White House and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Amash's tweets.

Ronna McDaniel, president of the Republican National Committee, wrote on Twitter: "It's sad to see … Amash repeat the Democrats' talking points about Russia." The only people still preoccupied with the investigation of Russia are Trump's political enemies "who hope to defeat him in 2020 by all possible desperate means."

Amash, who represents Michigan's 3rd congressional district, wrote that he had read Mueller's full report, but few members of Congress had read it.

In February, Amash became the only Republican to co-sponsor a resolution of the US House of Representatives to reject the urgency that Trump had declared at the US-Mexico border to build a wall there, in a blistering reprimand to the president.

Indictment should only be undertaken under extraordinary circumstances, Amash wrote on Saturday. But the risk in an era of extreme partisanship "is not that Congress uses it too often as a solution but rather that it uses it so rarely that it can not discourage mistakes.