CNN — By bulldozing into Roger Stone’s sentencing, Donald Trump sparked a mutiny by four career prosecutors, raised fears about the impartial administration of justice and showed how his impeachment acquittal unchained an already rampant presidency. The Justice Department’s decision to water down a recommendation by its own prosecutors for Stone to serve up to nine years in prison that …
Washington CNN — In an extraordinary move, all four federal prosecutors who took the case against longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone to trial withdrew Tuesday after top Justice Department officials undercut them and disavowed the government’s recommended sentence against Stone. In a new filing Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office in Washington revised the sentencing recommendation to be “far less” …