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Originally Posted by mooby
Am I missing something other than what has already happened with the prosecutors quitting?
Who actually believes there's an alternative explanation where Barr or someone from the Justice Dept. didn't change their recommendation to please Trump?
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Trump tweeted more about it. Shocking...
as for the question about changing the recommendation, the Washington Post said
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Federal guidelines typically call for a sentence ranging from 15 to 21 months for first-time offenders convicted of obstruction offenses, such as lying to Congress, making false statements and witness tampering, as Stone was
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so 7-9 years seems pretty out of touch with what the guidelines might be. My guess is they called the each count to run consecutive versus concurrent, and the only reason to do that is vindictiveness at a failed effort to get Trump.