Former special counsel Robert Mueller broke a nearly year-long silence on Saturday to defend his office’s investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia and its indictment of Roger Stone
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller broke a nearly year-long silence on Saturday to defend his office’s investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia and its indictment of Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump whose prison sentence in connection to the probe was commuted by the president Friday night.published online Saturday afternoon. “He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.
A jury eventually found Stone guilty of lying to Congress and witness tampering in connection to the Russia investigation. Prior to his commutation, Stone had been frantically trying to avoid a 40-month prison sentence set to begin next week. Trump in a tweet on Saturday said Stone was “targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that never should have taken place.” Mueller, in his op-ed, said Stone was a “central figure” in the investigation.
“We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law,” Mueller wrote. Saturday’s op-ed was uncharacteristic for the former special counsel, who rarely spoke about the investigation publicly and whose office was known in Washington to be leak-proof. Saturday marked the first time Mueller made public statements about the Russia investigation since his congressional testimony in July 2019.
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