President Trump contradicts attorney general, Bill Barr, and says that he has 'the legal right' to ask for criminal case interference by lisettevoytko
that he stop using Twitter to talk about federal criminal cases, and claimed that although he has not asked Barr to intervene in a criminal case, he has “the legal right...to do so.”in which Barr said Trump’s Twitter missives “make it impossible to do my job,” and that “it’s time to stop tweeting” about Department of Justice cases, a rare rebuke.
Barr’s comments came after the crisis of confidence caused by all four federal prosecutors resigning from the Roger Stone case, which was spurred by DOJ officials requesting a lighter sentence than their recommendation.Barr said in the ABC interview that Trump has not asked him to interfere in any criminal cases, a statement Trump quoted from in his Friday tweet.
, however, Trump would be within his rights to ask for further investigation in a case that did not affect his personal interests, like terrorism, but that attorney general would reject requests to investigate political rivals.he sent his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to Ukraine to investigate his political rivals—which he previously denied in November 2019. “If [a U.S.
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