The Roger Stone prosecutors walked out after the Department of Justice undermined their original sentencing memo in what President Donald Trump's critics claim is political interference.
"This conduct was part of an effort to hide from Congress and to craft a false narrative about Stone's conduct in 2016," said the original sentencing memo by the prosecutors who subsequently quit after the DOJ's intervention.
Speaking to reporters in the White House on Tuesday, Trump denied intervening directly with the justice department over Stone's case, but repeated his criticisms of the original sentencing memo.
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