The libertarian fight over Trump

Published June 7, 2019 3:00am ET



Former Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., took to the op-ed pages to blast President Trump, early in his term, as “the most divisive president in our history.” While that assessment is a matter of opinion, Trump has managed to drive an unfamiliar wedge between the two most libertarian members of Congress.

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., became the first member of his party to call for the president’s impeachment, saying Attorney General William Barr “deliberately misrepresented key aspects” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report, a document he further alleged many of his GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill never read.

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