Judiciary Committee Demands Barr Hands Over Trump Messages Related to Stone Sentencing
The House Judiciary committee has demanded that Attorney General William Barr hands over any communications President Donald Trump sent relating to the sentencing of his longtime friend Roger Stone.
In a letter released Friday morning, committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler made the urgent request to Barr that he had over any information which may show “improper political interference, including by President Trump, in enforcement matters handled by the Department of Justice.”
Nadler wrote that allegations of Trump’s involvement in the softening of Stone’s sentence earlier this month are “deeply troubling,” and echoed back Barr’s own words to him that Trump’s unpredictable tweets about Department of Justice legal cases made his job “impossible.”