A cavalcade of former DOJ officials came forward over the weekend demanding that the attorney general resign for undermining the department’s independence
Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Attorney General William Barr is facing significant criticism following a report last week that he personally intervened to ease prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation for Trump surrogate and witness tamperer Roger Stone — a situation that Trump then confirmed on Twitter.
It is unheard of for the Department’s top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President, as Attorney General Barr did in the Stone case. It is even more outrageous for the Attorney General to intervene as he did here — after the President publicly condemned the sentencing recommendation that line prosecutors had already filed in court.
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