More than 800 people showed up to a town hall Tuesday night to both praise and berate the only Republican member of Congress who has called for impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — More than 800 people showed up to a town hall Tuesday night to both praise and berate the only Republican member of Congress who has called for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump supporters, including Grand Rapids resident Anna Timmer, from left, heckle Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, at Grand Rapids Christian High School's DeVos Center for Arts and Worship on May 28, 2019.Amash, who was first elected to Congress in 2010 as part of the Tea Party wave focused on a limited government and ballooning deficits, has repeatedly bucked his party on issues of government spending, health care and now impeachment.
Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, holds a town hall meeting at Grand Rapids Christian High School's DeVos Center for Arts and Worship on May 28, 2019.One impassioned woman stood to tell Amash that she logged countless hours volunteering for his first congressional campaign but has since changed her opinion of him.She defended Trump, saying that the president and his campaign were spied upon.
The crowd included Democrats who had never voted for Amash but wanted to support him, Republicans who wanted to hear him explain himself and hard-core Trump supporters who came to challenge him. Cathy Garnaat, a Republican who supported Amash and the president said she was upset about Amash’s position but wanted to hear his reasoning. She said that she will definitely support Trump in 2020 but that Tuesday night was the first time she had heard that the Mueller report didn’t completely exonerate the president.
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