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After federal prosecutors recommended a nine-year maximum sentence for Donald Trump’s longtime friend and political mentor Roger Stone on his convictions for obstructing congress and tamping with witnesses, Attorney General William Barr appears to have personally intervened in the case, ordering prosecutors to ask for a lighter sentence, according to a report by NBC News.
Barr’s reported meddling in the case came after Trump on Tuesday morning tweeted that the nine-year sentence recommendation was “horrible and very unfair.”
But Stone himself, in a court filing his lawyers, pleaded with Judge Amy Berman Jackson to lessen his sentence, saying that his repeated violations of her gag orders against him should not count because they aggravated his “anxiety.”
According to a New York Times report, Stone claimed to have fought a “longstanding battle” with the condition, and had conquered the problem through “therapy” until his anxiety was made worse when Berman Jackson ordered him to stop posting about his case on social media.