U.S. attorney general says Trump's tweets make his job “impossible”

US Secretary of Justice and Attorney General William Barr believes Twitter by President, Donald Trump may interfere with the work of the ministry parsing the case of a former adviser to US leader Roger Stone.

"The president never asked me to do anything about this case. However, public statements and tweets about the ministry, about men and women working here, about the cases that the ministry is dealing with, and about the judges considering these cases, lead to the fact that I’m being deprived of the opportunity to engage in my work and guarantee to judges and prosecutors from the ministry that we faithfully perform our duties, "said Barr.  At the same time, he noted that Trump had no influence on the decision of the Ministry of Justice to reconsider the recommendations on the sentence to Stone.

“It's time to stop tweeting about the affairs of the Department of Justice,” Barr said.  The host asked him a question regarding whether the prosecutor general is afraid of a possible negative reaction of the president to his words.  "No one can influence me or intimidate me - neither Congress, nor the newspaper editorial staff, nor the president," Barr emphasized. "I will do what I see fit."

On Monday, the state prosecution asked the court to sentence political strategist Stone, who was Trump's adviser during the 2016 presidential election campaign, to the imprisonment of seven years and three months to nine years.  The American leader criticized this recommendation on his Twitter page.  On Tuesday, the Justice Department presented a new petition requesting Stone to be sentenced to a shorter prison term.  Before this, against the background of the decision to revise the recommendation, all four federal prosecutors who signed the first petition recused themselves.  Trump himself on Tuesday assured reporters that he did not ask the Justice Ministry to change his position on the case.