⁍ Robert Mueller has defended his two-year investigation into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
⁍ He wrote an opinion article for the Washington Post published under the headline ‘Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so’
Stone was a former campaign adviser to the president, convicted in November 2019 of seven crimes including obstruction of justice.
⁍ He was sentenced in February to 40 months in prison and was due to surrender on Tuesday, until the president commuted his sentence.

– “He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.” So writes Robert Mueller in a Washington Post op-ed that takes on President Trump’s decision to commute Roger Stone’s prison sentence. “The work of the special counsel’s office—its report, indictments, guilty pleas, and convictions—should speak for itself,” writes Mueller. “But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office.” The special counsel’s investigation “identified two principal operations directed at our election: hacking and dumping Clinton campaign emails, and an online social media campaign to disparage the Democratic candidate,” writes Mueller. “We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel—Stone among them. We did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government.” Mueller continues: “Russia’s actions were a threat to America’s democracy. It was critical that they be investigated and understood.” The full column is here.