President Trump said he had the right to intervene in criminal cases but hasn’t done so, a day after Attorney General William Barr said the president’s tweets and public statements were making it “impossible” for the attorney general to do his job
WASHINGTON—President Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday morning that he had the right to intervene in criminal cases but hasn’t done so, a day after Attorney General William Barr said the president’s tweets and public statements were making it “impossible” for the attorney general to do his job.
Mr. Trump posted a quotation of Mr. Barr saying that the president had never asked the attorney general to intervene in a criminal case, then added: “This doesn’t mean that I do not have, as President, the legal right to do so, I do,...
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