VIDEO: Barr slams Trump for tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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Attorney General William Barr told ABC News in an interview aired Thursday that President Trump had never asked him to do anything in a criminal case but advised the president to stop tweeting about the Justice Department, saying it makes it “impossible for me to do my job.”

The remarks are a significant and rare public break by the attorney general from the president, following days of controversy surrounding the Justice Department’s decision to lessen a sentence for Trump ally Roger Stone after the president tweeted about his displeasure with the gravity of the original sentence recommendation.

The article goes on to state the following:

“I think it’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases,” Barr told ABC in the interview.

“Tweets made about people in the department, cases pending in the department, make it impossible for me to do my job, to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we are doing our job with integrity.”

“I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me,” he added.

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