Trump praised Barr on social media after the Justice Department pushed the prosecutors in Stone's case to weaken their proposal. TWEET In his ABC interview, Barr for the first time publicly detailed his account of the decision to reduce Stone's sentencing recommendation. Barr said that on Monday, Timothy Shea, his former counselor who recently became the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, "came by to briefly chat with me and say that the team very much wanted to recommend the seven- to nine-year [term] to the judge, but he thought that there was a way of satisfying everybody and providing more flexibility."