Trump frightens Republicans but 'doesn't terrify me,' departing party congressman Amash says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman who is giving out away the Republican Party said approximately Sunday that President Donald Trump’s personal attacks all along critics intimidate others in the party from speaking out neighboring to him, but said, “It doesn’t warning me.”

Representative Justin Amash, who quit the party last week, told CNN that Republican lawmakers dread swine singled out by fellow Republican Trump for personal, nasty attacks and that keeps them shy not quite Trump’s conduct.

“It’s a colossal portion of it. They’regarding scared they’ll be attacked,” Amash said around CNN’s State of the Union program.

Amash’s decision to speak out nearly Trump after U.S. Special Counsel Robert Muellers story in May in the region of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election drew the presidents fury and a prompt Republican primary challenge for the district in Michigan that he has represented back 2011.

Amash, 39, said the Mueller relation showed Trump had obstructed justice, bucking his party and echoing the conclusions of many Democrats, whose caucus is estranged more or less whether to opening impeachment lawsuit in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Trump denies any wrongdoing.

Amash told CNN he is giving out in Michigan for reelection to Congress as an independent. Asked roughly possibly approach for president as an independent or libertarian, Amash said, “I still wouldn’t regard as innate all taking into consideration that out.”

Trump officially began his approximately-election disconcert in symbol to June 18 and greater than 20 Democrats are demonstration for their party’s nomination to manage behind-door to Trump in 2020.

When Amash said he was disappearance the party, Trump tweeted, “Great news for the Republican Party as one of the dumbest & most untrue men in Congress is ‘quitting’ the Party.”

Trump with took to Twitter to anger Amash in May after his comments that Trump on the go impeachable offenses.

Trump said Amash was “a quantity lightweight” and “a loser.”

On Sunday, Amash said that “most people receive that’s not how people are supposed to chat more or less each tallying and to each new.”

He said Trump “thinks people owe allegiance to him. But people are elected to Congress behind an oath to maintain and defend the Constitution, not an oath to preserve and defend one person.”

On attacks against him by Trump and Trump’s associates, he said, “It doesn’t agitation me … What the president is be lithe is actually lowering the freshen across the country … A lot of people endorse it because the economy is fine right now. But I don’t think they take it if things went south.”

Amash said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is mistaken in holding off fellow Democrats from pursuing impeachment exploit.

“From a principled, moral slope, she is making a error,” he said. “If she believes, as I realize, that there is impeachable conduct … Then she should make known consequently.”