Attorney General William Barr criticized President Trump for tweeting about Justice Department cases and said the tweets make it 'impossible' to do his job
"To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job," Barr said,"and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we're doing our work with integrity.
The Department of Justice has traditionally been independent of presidential influence in the decades since the Watergate scandal, in which President Richard Nixon used the powers of the Justice Department for his own political gain. Trump's tweet criticizing prosecutors in the Stone case, and the Justice Department's subsequent decision to undercut them with a lighter sentence recommendation, led to all four prosecutors who worked on the case to resign from their positions.
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