WASHINGTON — President Trump praised the Justice Department on Wednesday for overruling prosecutors who sought up to nine years in prison for his former aide Roger Stone.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he’s unconcerned after four federal prosecutors quit in protest when the Justice Department reversed their request for Stone to spend seven to nine years in prison.

“I’m not concerned about anything. They ought to go back to school and learn because I’ll tell you what: the way they treated people, nobody should be treated like that,” Trump said of the special prosecutors, who had been part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump, who declined to say if he will pardon Stone, made the remarks after a morning tweet musing: “Rogue prosecutors maybe? The Swamp!”

Trump contrasted the original sentencing request for Stone with the two months in jail for former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer James Wolfe in December 2018. Wolfe was sentenced for lying to the FBI after leaking to reporters including his mistress, a New York Times reporter.

“He got sentenced to two months for leaking classified information at the highest level,” Trump said.

The Justice Department on Tuesday afternoon filed an updated request for “far less” time in prison for Stone, 67, who was convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering as a result of his claims about trying to contact WikiLeaks in 2016. The witness whose dog Stone allegedly threatened has said he did not feel at risk.

Authorities changed course on the Stone sentencing request after Trump tweeted early Tuesday: “This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!”

Democrats on Wednesday accused Trump of abusing his power when he commented on the case prior to Stone’s sentencing. Trump denied that he applied pressure on the Justice Department, but praised the pivot.

“I want to thank the Justice Department for seeing this horrible thing — and I didn’t speak to him by the way just so you understand — they saw the horribleness of a nine year sentence for doing nothing,” Trump said.

“You have murderers and drug addicts it’ll get nine years. Nine years for doing something that nobody even can define what he did. Someone said he put out a tweet, and the tweet, you base it on that. We have killers, we have murders all over the place, nothing happens. And then they put a man in jail and destroy his life, his family, his wife, his children.”

The president complained that his political adversaries who committed alleged misconduct during the Mueller probe have not faced criminal charges.

“Nine years in jail, it’s a disgrace and in the meantime [former FBI Director James] Comey walks around making book deals,” Trump said. “Where’s Comey? What’s happening to [former FBI Deputy Director] Andrew McCabe? … [former FBI officials] Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, what’s happening to them?”