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Robert Mueller, former FBI director and special counsel who investigated Trump, dies at 81.
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Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and potential obstruction of justice by Donald Trump, has died at age 81. Mueller spent 12 years as FBI director under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama before being appointed special counsel in 2017, a role that produced a two-year investigation concluding in March 2019. His 448-page report detailed extensive Russian election interference and numerous Trump campaign contacts with Russian officials, though Mueller declined to make a prosecutorial judgment on obstruction charges. Mueller's investigation was one of the most consequential and contentious political inquiries in modern American history, shaping Trump's first presidency and dominating national debate over presidential accountability. His death removes a central figure in one of the most scrutinized investigations of a sitting president in U.S. history.
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