Unrepentant Trump ignores Barr's plea to back off tweeting
February 14, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unbowed by a public rebuke from his attorney general, President Donald Trump on Friday declared he has the "legal right" to intervene in criminal cases and sidestep the Justice Department's historic independence. At the same time, it was revealed federal prosecutors have been ordered to review the criminal case of his former national security adviser.
A day after Attorney General William Barr said the president's tweets were making it "impossible for me to do my job," Trump declared he had the right to ask the agency to intervene in cases but so far has "chosen not to." It wa...
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