Trump is feeling emboldened after being acquitted of crimes and misdemeanors by the Senate, which is why he tweeted his desire to have the Justice Department intervene in trying to get a lesser sentence for crony Roger Stone rather than seven to nine years that staffers at the Justice Department recommended. Three of the four lawyers handling the Stone case quit it, and the fourth quit the Justice Department entirely.
Doing Trump's bidding has been the modus operandi of Attorney General William Barr (above), who has been shielding Trump from numerous threats to his power, going as far as to deliberately take the Mueller report out of context and misrepresenting the facts in it. His politicization of his office and the department he administers has had a chilling effect on career prosecutors in the government, now suddenly reluctant to conduct any investigation that Trump may not like.
Barr did speak out against Trump this past week, urging him not to tweet any input into the Stone case or any other, saying that it makes him hard to run the Justice Department with any impartiality. Don't be fooled. Barr is happy to do with Trump wants. He's opposed to Trump's tweeting on Stone and other matters not out of the need to preserve the good standing of the Justice Department but because Trump's openness in demonstrating his manipulation of justice has gotten so obvious it's become a public relations problem.
With the Republican Senate staying silent and House Democrats having few options in trying to stop him, Trump will continue to wreck havoc on the justice system unabated until and unless he's voted out of office. Will that happen in November? Well, it depends on the intelligence and the voters and the integrity of the electoral process.
Sorry to disappoint you. :-(
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