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suggested that Stone deserves a

new trial.

He later acknowledged to re-

porters that his tweeting does

make Barr’s job more difficult.

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said, is not entirely receptive to

calls to change his behavior, and

he has told those around him that

he is not going to stop tweeting

about the Justice Department.

They said Trump considers high-

lighting what he perceives as fBI

and Justice Department miscon-

duct a good political message.

on Tuesday, Trump declared

he might sue those involved in

the special counsel’s investiga-

tion of his 2016 campaign and

of their gavels” and that “the

Dems should be removed from

power in Nov for their corrupt,

rigged, rushed impeachment, hi-

jacking Congress to appease a

radical activist liberal base.”

Trump was acquitted by the

Senate on charges of abuse of

power and obstruction of Con-

gress. Schiff and Nadler were

among the House impeachment

managers.

Trump, White House officials

Trump’s longtime friend roger
Stone is scheduled to be sen-
tenced for lying to Congress and
obstruction. Trump’s tweets
about Stone last week prompted
Barr to speak out publicly, saying
the president’s declarations
“make it impossible for me to do
my job.”
If Trump continues to tweet,
and Barr continues to stay in his
job, “I think he is in danger of
getting into ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf ’
territory,” said matthew miller, a
former Justice Department
spokesman in the obama admin-
istration. “He’s already said the
president’s commenting made
his job impossible, and the presi-
dent kept commenting, and then
he apparently told people that he
was considering resigning if the
president didn’t stop. So if the
president doesn’t stop now and
he doesn’t quit, he looks feckless
and insincere.”
In the Stone case, prosecutors
initially recommended seven to
nine years in prison, infuriating
Trump, who called the recom-
mendation unfair. The next day,
the four prosecutors assigned to
the case withdrew, and a softer
sentencing memo for Stone was
filed at the direction of Barr and
other senior Justice Department
officials.
on Wednesday, Trump stopped
short of challenging Barr directly,
opting instead to amplify criti-
cisms of the Justice Department
made by fellow conservatives.
A Justice Department spokes-
woman declined to comment.
Trump retweeted several Twit-
ter posts from To m fitton, presi-
dent of the conservative activist
group Judicial Watch, who con-
tended that Trump was “the vic-
tim of a seditious conspiracy” by
the Justice Department and the
fBI that led to the investigation
of possible coordination between
his 2016 presidential campaign
and russia.
“Barr should clean house at
DoJ,” fitton said. In another
tweet Trump shared, fitton said
Trump “has a positive constitu-
tional obligation to speak up
about DoJ corruption.”
fitton’s group has spent years
suing the government seeking
documents to support his accusa-
tion that the Justice Department
is corrupt. He is a frequent com-
mentator on fox News, Trump’s
preferred network, and the presi-
dent has sometimes shared his
views on Twitter.
In another tweet, fitton bol-
stered Trump’s expansive view of
his power over the Justice De-
partment. In a tweet sent hours
after Trump told reporters that
he is “the chief law enforcement
officer of the country,” fitton
cited instances in which several
of Trump’s predecessors had di-
rected the Justice Department to
take various actions.
His examples included Presi-
dent George H.W. Bush ordering
the department to investigate po-
lice in the wake of the 1992 riots
in Los Angeles after a jury acquit-
ted four police officers who were
charged with using excessive
force in the arrest of rodney
King, who was beaten during the
encounter the year before.
Trump also shared a sugges-
tion by fitton that the president
pardon his former national secu-
rity adviser michael T. f lynn, who
pleaded guilty in December 2017
to lying to the fBI about his
contacts with then-russian Am-
bassador Sergey Kislyak and is
awaiting sentencing. The presi-
dent has said he feels that flynn,
too, has been treated unfairly.
on Tuesday, Trump used his
broad presidential clemency
powers to pardon a list of promi-
nent people, including convicted
junk bond king michael milken
and former New York police com-
missioner Bernard Kerik. He also
commuted the sentences of sever-
al others, including disgraced for-
mer Illinois governor rod r.
Blagojevich.
Trump’s retweets Wednesday
also included several from con-
servative congressional allies, in-
cluding rep. Lee Zeldin (r-N.Y.),
who expressed hope that the Jus-
tice Department would soon hold
responsible those officials who
“weaponized the awesome pow-
ers at their disposal in order to
target the Trump campaign” dur-
ing the russia investigation.
Trump added: “There must be
JUSTICE. This can never happen
to a President, or our Country,
again!”
The president also highlighted
grievances about his impeach-
ment by the House for seeking
investigations from Ukraine that
could benefit him politically at a
time when U.S. military aid was
being withheld from the country.
In another Zeldin tweet that
Trump shared, the congressman
said House Intelligence Commit-
tee Chairman Adam B. Schiff
(D-Calif.) and House Judiciary
Committee Chairman Jerrold Na-
dler (D-N.Y.) should be “stripped

barr from a

Trump retweets attacks on Justice, FBI

attorney General William P.

barr, shown in October, did not

mention recent tensions with

the president during a speech

Wednesday at the FbI.

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