Tuesday Night Massacre: In an act of resistance against President Trump, four federal prosecutors resigned yesterday after the Justice Department announced it will reduce their sentencing recommendation for former Trump associate Roger Stone, who was found guilty of witness tampering and lying to investigators in the investigation of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

  The prosecutors asked the judge Monday to sentence Stone to 7 to 9 years in prison, a harsh sentence triggered by the witness tampering element of the case. Trump tweeted ,“Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!” and evidently Attorney Gen. William Barr heard him.

  Trump tweeted this morning, “Congratulations to Attorney General Bill Barr for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought.”

  There’s an argument to be made that the sentence recommendation was a little tough, but Justice cut the legs from under its own people with its announcement.  One of the prosecutors resigned completely from the Justice Department.

  The resignations may have a resounding effect upon Trump and his administration, but then again, maybe not. Protests like this are lost on leaders who don’t know right from wrong.

New Hampshire: Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary last night in a contest that may have been just as significant for who was second, third, and fifth.

  The latter was Vice President Joe Biden, long considered the front-runner, who has now lost twice and left New Hampshire before all the votes were in. He headed to greener, warmer pastures in South Carolina. Biden told his supporters, “We’re going to be back in New Hampshire. We’re going to be back there to defeat Donald Trump in November.” He won’t if he loses South Carolina.

  Although Bernie the radical progressive won the night, if you compile the vote for all the moderates, they crushed him.

  With 87 percent of the vote counted this morning, Sanders was at 25.9 percent and “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg, who came from nowhere at the beginning of all this, finished a close second with 24.4 percent.

  Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who’s had a slow but steady rise, is third at 19.8 percent.

  Joe Biden finished fifth at 8.4 percent, but said, “We’re just at the opening bell.”

The Bloomberg Threat: Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wasn’t on the New Hampshire ballot, but he’s rising in the polls and President Trump is meeting the threat.

  Yesterday Trump called Bloomberg a “total racist’ for his “stop and frisk” policing policy while he was mayor. That’s a hot one coming from Trump, but Bloomberg has a bug on his record. 

  Bloomberg authorized the New York cops to search anyone they thought likely to have a weapon, and in most cases that meant young non-white men. In an otherwise successful tenure in which New York prospered, “stop and frisk” became a policy that will dog Bloomberg for life.

  Bloomberg has since said he was wrong, but Trump tweeted audio of a 2015 interview in which Bloomberg defended his policy saying, “Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city.”

  He went on describing policing tactics and saying, “We put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes. That’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is.”

  That’s not a good thing when you need the votes of the guys you stopped and frisked.

The Dwindling Crowd: The New Hampshire results were barely in and the Democratic field lost two candidates. 

  Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, barely known to the country, bailed out. 

  Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur without political experience who wore a “Math” button and promised a universal basic income, also dropped out last night. “I am the math guy, and it’s clear from the numbers we’re not going to win this campaign,” he said. “So tonight I’m announcing that I am suspending my campaign.”

  And someone please explain why Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard hasn’t seen reality. 

Outbreak: The World Health organization has re-named the Wuhan coronavirus “Covid-19” to remove the stigma of the epidemic’s origin in China. It’s like when Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC. The fat will still kill you.

  As of this morning, 1116 people have died and 45,204 have been diagnosed. 

Bad Act: Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was indicted in Chicago yesterday on charges that he staged a hate crime. Police say Smollett paid two men 11 months ago to attack him shouting “This is MAGA Country,” after President Trump’s slogan.

  Police claimed Smollett did it in a ploy to gain sympathy and get an increase in his salary. Smollett was charged at the time then the charges were oddly dismissed by the state’s attorney. 

  Special Prosecutor Dan Webb said, “Jussie Smollett planned and participated in a staged hate crime attack, and thereafter made numerous false statements to Chicago Police Department officers on multiple occasions, reporting a heinous hate crime that he, in fact, knew had not occurred.”

Best in Show: A black standard poodle with a haircut like Marie Antoinette won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Show last night, defeating a golden retriever that was adored by the crowd. Never mind, the world could use more good dogs right now.

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