President Donald Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that his social media posts are making Attorney General William Barr’s job harder, but added that social media is very important to the president because it gives him a voice.
The president comments come after Barr issued rare criticism to the president about his Twitter posts in the wake of one of Trump’s posts about the sentencing of former campaign adviser Roger Stone. The Justice Department’s (DOJ) handling of the Stone case has received extensive scrutiny after the department requested a lighter sentence for the Trump associate. Top department officials intervened in the case after deeming the original recommendation of seven to nine years as “excessive.”
