{"id":99027,"date":"2020-05-01T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99027"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T18:21:19","slug":"justin-amash-exploring-third-party-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99027","title":{"rendered":"Justin Amash Exploring Third-Party Presidential Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93491\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-93491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Impeachment-in-case-Trump-keeps-winning-466x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Impeachment-in-case-Trump-keeps-winning-466x333.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Impeachment-in-case-Trump-keeps-winning-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Impeachment-in-case-Trump-keeps-winning.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In case President Trump keeps winning, break glass. (Branco\/Americans for Limited Government\/Creators.com)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Justin Amash, when he was a Republican, was one of those who advocated on behalf of President Trump being impeached. He subsequently switched from the Republican Party to Independent. Now, he is considering the third-party option, hoping to get the nomination for the Libertarian Party.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Axios:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For something new. For a government that secures our rights. For equality before the law. For an end to cronyism. For a government that fulfills its purpose and recognizes its limits. For practical approaches based in humility and trust of the people. For an honest, principled president who will defend the Constitution and put individuals first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Justin Amash statement on his website<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The link for the story is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/justin-amash-president-cd9b0fbd-02dc-4e38-8f41-e4e43d001c7a.html\">here<\/a>. In another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/justin-amash-donald-trump-impeachment-reasons-47e98dec-1d95-431d-b6e4-2125c42d4fc2.html\">post<\/a>, Axios listed six arguments that Justin Amash advanced for impeaching President Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating then-national security adviser Michael Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asked then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to un-recuse himself from the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asked then-White House counsel Don McGahn to have Mueller removed, stating it was necessary due to conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asked McGahn to state that the request to remove Mueller never happened, suggesting McGahn could be fired if that did not take place.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asked his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to tell Sessions to limit the scope of Mueller&#8217;s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wielded his pardon power to influence associates facing prosecution from Mueller, like Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, not to cooperate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Justin Amash&#8217;s tweet:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let&#8217;s do this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhpQQhTauh\">https:\/\/t.co\/AhpQQhTauh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Amash (@justinamash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinamash\/status\/1255291408732360712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Amash, when he was a Republican, was one of those who advocated on behalf of &hellip; <a title=\"Justin Amash Exploring Third-Party Presidential Run\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99027\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Justin Amash Exploring Third-Party Presidential Run<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99030,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99027\/revisions\/99030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}