Four federal prosecutors resigned Tuesday after the DOJ walked back a recommended jail term for Trump associate Roger Stone, soon after the president attacked the proposal on Twitter.
The president told reporters Tuesday that he did not ask the DOJ to amend the sentencing memo. He did, however, argue that he had an"the absolute right to do it" if he so chose, and attacked the original jail recommendation memo as"disgraceful."
Democratic lawmakers are already pushing back against the U-turn. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for example, wrote to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz asking for a probe into whether there was political interference in the decision. Stone is set to be sentenced on February 20. He is one of the Trump associates indicted under special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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