Barr DOJ Overrules Career Prosecutors in Roger Stone Sentencing

The Justice Department's political leadership reversed a 7-to-9-year sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone on February 11, 2020, one day after President Trump tweeted that the recommendation was "very horrible and unfair." All four career prosecutors who had tried the case withdrew from it in protest within hours of the reversal. Attorney General William Barr later claimed the decision had been made before Trump's tweet, but the sequence drew congressional demands for investigation.