DOJ prosecutors resign after top brass reverses course on Roger Stone sentencing

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-prosecutors-resign-after-top-brass-reverses-course-on-roger-stone-sentencing

This official did acknowledge that the process has not played out as planned: “The way it happened is not ideal, but it's not unheard of that we correct the record and move on.”

Stone has been convicted on seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress on charges that stemmed from Mueller’s Russia investigation. Prosecutors charged that Stone lied to Congress about his conversations about WikiLeaks with Credico, although Stone was never linked to any criminal conspiracy to access or leak documents.

  Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, President Trump said he stayed out of internal DOJ deliberations, but strongly opposed their initial sentencing recommendation.

"I stay out of things to a degree that people wouldn't believe," Trump said. He added that the initial recommendation was "ridiculous" and called it "an insult to our country."

Later, Trump claimed the prosecutors quitting the case "cut and ran after being exposed" for the tough sentencing recommendation.

  Trump also took a shot at Jackson, writing on Twitter: "Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure? How did she treat Crooked Hillary Clinton? Just asking!"