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Trump doesn't heed Barr's request to cool tweeting on DOJ

by Associated Press
| February 17, 2020 12:05 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unbowed by a public rebuke from his attorney general, President Donald Trump says he has the "legal right" to intervene in criminal cases and sidestep the Justice Department's historic independence. At the same time, it was revealed federal prosecutors have been ordered to review the criminal case of his former national security adviser.

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