AP FACT CHECK: Trump´s exaggerations on Roger Stone sentence
(WorldNews Mexico)

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is misrepresenting the Justice Department’s handling of the legal case of his confidant, Roger Stone. He’s suggesting rampant bias in the department’s initial recommendation to a federal court that Stone be sentenced between seven and nine years in prison, claiming that all four prosecutors are former members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia team. That’s not true. Trump also says the proposed sentence was put forth in secret. He’s wrong on that, too. The president’s exaggerations came in an extraordinary week in which Justice Department leaders overruled Stone’s prosecutors following a tweet...