William Barr Tells ABC News Donald Trump’s Tweets About DOJ “Make It Impossible For Me To Do My Job”
ABC News and Thomas, landed the first sitdown interview with Barr since the furor over the Justice Department decision to reverse itself on a sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, the former Trump associate who was convicted on seven counts of witness tampering and lying to investigators last year.
Early on Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted that federal prosecutors’ recommendation for Stone was a “horrible and very unfair situation.” But in the ABC News interview, Barr said that he was “surprised” at the recommendation and told his staff on Monday night that they should amend the sentencing recommendation. He said that the situation was then complicated by the president’s tweets.
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