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White House responds to Attorney General Barr’s concerns with Trump tweets
In a statement, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says President Trump wasn’t bothered by Barr’s comments at all.<\/p><\/div>\n
By Gregg Jarrett | Fox News<\/p>\n
Democrats and the mainstream media are in the grips of mass hysteria \u2013 again. This time, their psychogenic illness was triggered by a presidential tweet. Even\u00a0Attorney General William Barr<\/a>\u00a0seems to have been affected.<\/p>\n Exercising his First Amendment right of free expression, President Trump used his thumbs to tweet late Monday night and state the obvious: it was \u201chorrible and very unfair\u201d for federal prosecutors to seek a seven- to nine-year prison sentence for\u00a0Roger Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stone \u2013 a former Trump confidant \u2013 was convicted in November by a jury in Washington of making false statements, obstruction and witness tampering in a case that arose from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s Russia investigation.<\/p>\n By any reasonable standard, the sentencing recommendation for Stone was excessive and overly punitive. Stone is 67, has no criminal history, and was convicted of nonviolent offenses. Yet, overzealous prosecutors asked that he serve twice as much time behind bars as those who are found guilty of more serious crimes such as armed robbery, rape, sexual assault, and even negligent manslaughter.<\/p>\n The moment Trump hit the \u201csend\u201d button on his tweet, collective hysteria swept through the halls of Congress and liberal newsrooms everywhere.<\/p>\n House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., undeterred by his humiliating impeachment defeat just days earlier, was at it again. He accused Trump of an \u201cabuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., repeated the tired and preposterous meme.<\/p>\n Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., a chronic impeachment enthusiast, refused to rule out another attempt to remove Trump from office.<\/p>\n Is there something in the drinking water in California that turns the brains of politicians to mush?<\/p>\n The unhinged harangues were all predicated on a brazen assumption that Trump had directed Attorney General Barr to overrule the trial prosecutors and recommend a more appropriate and equitable sentence for Stone of three to four years.<\/p>\n The Justice Department said the decision to seek a lesser sentence for Stone was made Monday, when the leadership there first learned what the prosecutors had done \u2013\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>Trump\u2019s tweet. The president, the White House, the Justice Department and the attorney general himself all insist that there were no communications about the case. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n