They’re afraid they’ll be attacked,” Amash said on CNN’s State of the Union program. Amash told CNN he is running in Michigan for reelection to Congress as an independent. When Amash said he was leaving the party, Trump tweeted, “Great news for the Republican Party as one of the dumbest & most disloyal men in Congress is ‘quitting’ the Party.”Trump also took to Twitter to attack Amash in May after his comments that Trump committed impeachable offenses. Trump said Amash was “a total lightweight” and “a loser.”On Sunday, Amash said that “most people understand that’s not how people are supposed to talk about each other and to each other.”He said Trump “thinks people owe loyalty to him. “If she believes, as I do, that there is impeachable conduct … Then she should say so.” (Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh; editing by Grant McCool)

Source: National Post July 07, 2019 15:45 UTC