Trump attacked the judge presiding over Roger Stone's trial, and praised AG Barr after the entire DOJ prosecution team resigned in protest at his meddling

• President Donald Trump has launched a series of attacks against prosecutors who secured the conviction of his former adviser, Roger Stone, and the judge who is to sentence him on February 20. 
• "9 years recommended for Roger Stone (who was not even working for the Trump Campaign). Gee, that sounds very fair! Rogue prosecutors maybe? The Swamp!" tweeted Trump early Wednesday. 
• He also congratulated Attorney General William Barr for taking over the Stone case, after the entire team of prosecutors on the Stone case resigned in protest at apparent meddling from higher-ups. 
• On Tuesday night, Trump had criticized Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is to sentence Stone and also sentenced Paul Manafort, a Trump campaign official jailed for campaign finance and tax crimes in 2019. 
• Democrats have accused Trump of seeking to politicize the Justice Department to pursue political enemies, and deter the prosecution of allies. 
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President Donald Trump has unleashed an extraordinary series of attacks on prosecutors who secured the conviction of former adviser Roger Stone, and the judge who is to sentence him. 

Trump responded to a tweet from a supporter on Tuesday who called on the president to pardon Stone, a veteran former Republican operative, as well as former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to investigators about his contact with the Russian ambassador while working for Trump. 

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