Former special counsel Robert Mueller asserted that Robert Stone “remains a convicted felon and rightly so,” after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence on Friday.
July 12 (UPI) — Former special counsel Robert Mueller responded to claims that his investigation into potential collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 was illegitimate following the president’s decision to commute Roger Stone’s sentence.
Mueller published an op-ed in the Washington Post on Saturday asserting that while the work of the special counsel’s office including indictments, guilty pleas and convictions “should speak for itself” but that he felt compelled to respond to claims that its “motives were improper and that” stone was a “victim” of the office.
“The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes.
