by Sharon Rondeau
(Mar. 21, 2026) — In an unceremonious statement on Truth Social Saturday afternoon, President Trump announced the passing of former FBI Director and Russia “collusion” special counsel Robert S. Mueller, III.
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” Trump wrote. “He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Mueller, who was 81 upon his death, in May 2017 was commissioned by then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to conduct an investigation into FBI allegations that the 2016 Trump campaign “colluded” with the Russian government to obtain a favorable election result as well as Russian interference in the election generally.
Mueller’s final report in that regard released in March 2019 contains large redacted sections but concluded there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Trump or anyone associated with his campaign with participating in a “conspiracy” to tilt the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
Mueller did, however, charge 37 individuals with process crimes, resulting in seven “guilty” pleas and prison time for some. Russian “hackers” and others indicted for crimes associated with the 2016 presidential campaign were beyond the reach of the arm of U.S. law.
At the time Trump claimed Mueller was compromised as special counsel on the basis of previous business transactions between them and termed the Russia investigation a “hoax.”
The probe imposed a cloud over the first two years of the Trump presidency and obtained “FISA” surveillance warrants on Trump associates under questionable pretenses.
Early on, Trump suggested his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, played a role in creating the groundwork for Mueller’s investigation inherited from the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane.” “Let’s look into Obama the way they looked at me,” he said on July 26, 2019.
In May 2023, Special Counsel John Durham published a final report in response to his investigation into Crossfire’s predicate, concluding Crossfire should never have been launched.
In a February 2018 report, then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes reached the same conclusion.
According to the New York Post, Mueller’s investigation cost taxpayers approximately $30 million.
On July 18, 2025, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed what she called a “treasonous conspiracy” carried out among “officials at the highest level of our government,” to include Obama. Following a December 9, 2016 meeting in the Oval Office, Gabbard wrote, the office of then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sent a request to the intelligence community to create a “new,” inaccurate intelligence assessment claiming the Kremlin actively interfered in the 2016 election.
Following Trump’s exoneration for alleged “collusion” with Russia, he was impeached twice by House Democrats, though acquitted by the Senate, the second time following his departure from the White House on January 20, 2021.
From the beginning, Trump claimed the 2020 election which Joe Biden allegedly won with “81 million votes” was “stolen” from him. In a December 9, 2025 interview with Politico, Trump claimed “all the evidence” of it would be released “over the next couple of months.”
In an ironic twist Saturday morning, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley published an article in The Hill titled, “The Justice Department takes action on the real Russian collusion conspiracy” in which he wrote:
This week, we learned that the probe into the Russian conspiracy theory in Florida is moving forward with the disclosure that former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed. What is different in this probe is that it is pursuing the real grand conspiracy from the end of the Obama administration — the creation of a false narrative to kneecap the first Trump administration.
At issue is what could be the greatest political hit job in history. Of course, the growing evidence of this conspiracy continues to be buried by one of its key components: the media. Nevertheless, the “truth will out,” and it appears to be coming out in Florida.
Headed by Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the investigation is building on information uncovered by House and Senate committees that was long buried by the Biden administration. That evidence appears to show a knowing effort to manufacture a Russian conspiracy hoax at the urging of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The title of this editorial is “Trump on Mueller Saturday: ‘I’m Glad He’s Dead.’ In the body of the editorial, President Trump was further quoted as having said “He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
I don’t mean to be hypercritical of Sharon or anyone else who knows a whole lot more than I do about the history of all of this. But, I have to say that I am greatly disappointed in President Trump’s UN-PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT about Vietnam war hero and DOJ official Robert Mueller (who actually appears to have been fairly bipartisan and dedicated to the task of investigating alleged Russia collusion in the 2016 election).
I prefer to “keep my eye on the ball,” which in this case is “I’m Glad He’s Dead” and “He can no longer hurt innocent people!” This kind of hateful language, I am sorry to say, is just that- hateful and un-presidential .
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when Mueller and the Donald met, on 5/16/17, the day before Mueller was “commissioned.” Mueller left tangled webs where ever he went (Boston/Bulger & 2001 Anthrax), as did Weissmann (Enron). They both hurt a lot of people, unnecessarily, and wasted large amounts of tax dollars (debt) to do it. Our government’s going in debt always has been and will be foolish. To cause the government to borrow, to hurt people that apparently did not deserve to be punished, hurts everyone. Whatever the origin of their career, they came to exemplify the antithesis of civil service via poor stewardship and indisputable self-service.