Did Trump intervene to reduce Roger Stone’s sentence?

The president has come out swinging after his impeachment acquittal

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Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House
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A polarised Washington DC is reeling after the US Justice Department reversed its recommendation to sentence political strategist Roger Stone to nine years in prison - a reversal announced after President Donald Trump criticised the length of the sentence on Twitter.

Trump lauded his Attorney General William Barr, who heads the Justice Department, for reducing the recommended sentence of Stone, an action that caused all four of the career prosecutors who oversaw Stone’s conviction to withdraw from the case in protest. Barr and Stone are both Trump’s allies.

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William Gritten

William Gritten is a London-born, New York-based strategist and writer focusing on politics and international affairs.