Attorney general says Trump tweets make job ‘impossible’

William Barr’s comments come after a backlash over the reduced sentence for Roger Stone

William Barr
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The US attorney general has said that President Donald Trump “undercuts” him when he tweets about cases, making it “impossible for me to do my job”.

William Barr’s comments are a “rare sign of annoyance with Mr Trump,” says the BBC, and come “amid intense scrutiny” of the Justice Department over the handling of a case involving Roger Stone - a convicted former advisor to the president.

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