President Trump
Donald John TrumpTrump travels to Dover to receive remains of service members killed in Afghanistan Nadler demands answers from Barr on 'new channel' for receiving Ukraine info from Giuliani Trump tweets scene from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' featuring 'Make America Great Again' hat MORE on Tuesday swiped at the prosecutors and judge in the case of longtime confidant Roger Stone
Roger Jason StoneDOJ asks judge to sentence Roger Stone to 7-9 years in prison Prosecution witness asks judge not to send Roger Stone to prison Authorities prepared to hand over Roger Stone records to media: report MORE amid the fallout of the Justice Department's decision to intervene in Stone's sentencing recommendation.
Trump weighed in on the sentencing late Tuesday even as Democrats and critics expressed alarm that the president seemed to be blurring the line between the executive branch and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
"Who are the four prosecutors (Mueller people?) who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending a ridiculous 9 year prison sentence to a man that got caught up in an investigation that was illegal, the Mueller Scam, and shouldn’t ever even have started? 13 Angry Democrats?" Trump tweeted.
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All four prosecutors who worked on Stone's case resigned Tuesday after the DOJ asked a federal court to reduce the seven- to nine-year prison sentence they had originally recommended. One prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky, worked on former special counsel Robert Mueller
Robert (Bob) Swan MuellerImpeachment is over — or is it? Schiff: Trump acquittal in Senate trial would not signal a 'failure' Jeffries blasts Trump for attack on Thunberg at impeachment hearing MORE's team.
Stone, a 67-year-old right-wing provocateur, was found guilty in November of lying to Congress and witness tampering related to his efforts to provide the Trump campaign inside information about WikiLeaks in 2016.
The timing of the DOJ's involvement raised questions given that it came hours after Trump ridiculed the initial recommendation as a "miscarriage of justice" and previous accusations from Democrats that Attorney General William Barr
William Pelham BarrNadler demands answers from Barr on 'new channel' for receiving Ukraine info from Giuliani Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts four Chinese military officers over Equifax hack | Amazon seeks Trump deposition in 'war cloud' lawsuit | Inside Trump's budget | Republican proposes FTC overhaul On The Money: Trump unveils .8T budget, backtracks on deal with Congress | Domestic cuts across the board | Deficit hawks slam proposal as unrealistic MORE has interceded at times in the president's favor.
The president later told reporters he had not spoken with DOJ officials about Stone's case but insisted he had the right to do so. He declined to say whether he was considering commuting Stone's eventual sentence.
"All starting to unravel with the ridiculous 9 year sentence recommendation!" Trump tweeted Tuesday night.
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Trump late Tuesday also swiped at D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is overseeing the Stone case, implying she had treated his former campaign chairman unfairly.
"Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort
Paul John ManafortTrump campaign chief relocating to Washington: report Trump calls the Russia investigation 'bulls---' DOJ releases new tranche of Mueller witness documents MORE in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure? How did she treat Crooked Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump holds New Hampshire campaign rally on the eve of primary Trump rally crowd chants 'lock her up' about Pelosi Louisiana man pleads guilty to burning three historically black churches MORE? Just asking!" Trump tweeted.
Manafort was sentenced a year ago to 7 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted on charges of bank and tax fraud and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge.
Jackson, an Obama appointee, oversaw the conspiracy case against Manafort, sentencing him to 43 months for that charge. During the trial, Manafort's attorneys complained that he had been subject to solitary confinement. Jackson clarified at the time that his location was a result of his lawyers' preferences, according to CNN.
Jackson is scheduled to sentence Stone on Feb. 20.
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