Amash is a good man, but he is obviously nutty in this case with this remark. Michigan voters love Amash. He’ll be reelected in 2018. He’s seen as a future president. Maybe in 2024.
Presidential material in 2024? The hell you say. He isn’t that popular or well known in Michigan. That type of political machine died when Mr. Trump was elected.
California Republican Congressman Devin Nunes callied Amash “Al Qaeda’s best friend in Congress”;
As Friedersdorf of The Atlantic notes, “Amash voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, favored a measure to repeal indefinite detention, and opposed reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act.”[36]
In 2014, he was one of eight members of Congress who voted “Nay” on a $225 million package to restock Israel’s Iron Domemissile defenses, which passed with 398 members in support.
Amash co-sponsored an amendment to the NDAA that would ban indefinite military detention and military trials so that all terror suspects arrested in the United States would be tried in civilian courts.
Amash is a frequent critic of the National Security Agency’s anti-terrorism surveillance programs.[13][51][52] He voted against the 2011 reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act,[53] the 2012 reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act,[54] and the USA Freedom Act.[55]
Amash is a second-generation Arab-American of Palestinian Christian and Syrian Greek Orthodox descent.[11] His father, Attallah, is a Palestinian business owner, whose family emigrated to the United States in 1956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Amash#Early_life_and_career