"Today, I am declaring my independence and leaving the Republican Party," Amash wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday morning . "Great news for the Republican Party as one of the dumbest & most disloyal men in Congress is 'quitting' the Party," the president tweeted . Amash, a staunch libertarian , litigated the failures of the Republican Party, Congress and the American political system as a whole in his Post op-ed. "Preserving liberty means telling the Republican Party and the Democratic Party that we'll no longer let them play their partisan game at our expense." "In some sense you've delegitimized objections to the President," Amash told CNN of the group's loyalty to Trump in March.

Source: CNN July 04, 2019 09:56 UTC