Federal prosecutors reportedly fear pursuing new cases involving Trump because might weaponize the Justice Department against them

• Federal prosecutors told The New York Times are increasingly wary about pursuing cases relating to President Donald Trump.
• They said the intervention from top Justice Department officials to reduce the recommended sentence for former Trump advisor Roger Stone earlier this week had increased their concern.
• On Monday, the entire team of federal attorneys who led Stone's prosecution resigned in protest at the intervention. 
• Democrats claim that Trump is seeking to seize control of the Department of Justice to pursue political grudges, while former prosecutors cite "a devastating breakdown" in the checks and balances on Trump's power.
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Federal prosecutors have told The New York Times that they increasingly wary of pursuing new criminal cases relating to President Donald Trump or his allies. 

More than a dozen officials currently working in some of the 93 US Attorney's Offices around the country, who were unnamed, told the newspaper they had already been hesitant about prosecuting new cases that might "attract the president's attention."

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