Trump Campaign Manager Attacks Amash: ‘Grandstanding Swamp Creature’

Brad Parscale, campaign manager for President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, speaks during a campaign rally in Houston, Texas on October 22, 2018. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale attacked Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) on Wednesday, calling the Republican lawmaker “another Grandstanding Swamp Creature” in a Trump-esque tweet.

“If Phony @justinamash were a TRUE libertarian, he wouldn’t stand for abuse of FBI power, spying, & bogus dossiers funded by political foes and fed to secret FISA courts,” Parscale tweeted. “He is just another Grandstanding Swamp Creature auditioning for the approval of the liberal media.”

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel had a similar response to Amash earlier in the day when she accused Amash of “grandstanding.”

Amash is the only congressional Republican who’s pushed for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, and he tweeted on Wednesday that “the ball is in our court, Congress” after special counsel Robert Mueller explained why he couldn’t charge Trump with any crimes.

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  1. Hey Brad, Ronna Romney show us you read the Mueller report.

  2. Biggest grandstanding swamp creature of all is… You know who.

  3. “*an infrastructure bill
    *passing legislation to lower drug prices”

    Where are these bills after your master refused to work with Congress?

  4. Unlike the Creature from the Orange Lagoon…

  5. While I certainly don’t agree with him 100%, I would characterize Amash as a politician with a conscience who is currently putting country against party and, having read the full Mueller report, draws conclusions as to the charge of obstruction of justice that other Repubs do not have the guts or morals or ethics or legal skills to do.

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