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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who led the conspiratorial Trump-Russia collusion probe, has died at the age of 81.
In reaction to the news, President Donald Trump offered little sympathy for the late official.
Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” he wrote Saturday in a post to Truth Social.
From 2001 to 2013, Mueller served as FBI director under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He was later appointed to serve as special counsel to investigate the supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election, which lasted nearly two years.
The probe stemmed from a report known as the Steele dossier—written by counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele, who suggested that the Russian government tried to get Trump elected in 2016, and that the president might have colluded with foreign officials in order to do so.
Steele wrote the report for a private investment firm, Fusion GPS, which was paid by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, according to the Washington Post, leading many of the president’s supporters to question the dossier’s credibility and whether it was an attempt by Democrats to undermine Trump’s presidency.
Ultimately, Mueller found no conspiratorial evidence linking President Trump and Russia, Fox News reported.