<p>Former <a href="/tags/fbi/" rel="tag">#FBI</a> Director <a href="/tags/robertmueller/" rel="tag">#RobertMueller</a>, who investigated <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#Russia</a> – <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> ties, dies</p><p>Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks & who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia & Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has died. He was 81. </p><p><a href="/tags/bobmueller/" rel="tag">#BobMueller</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/robert-mueller-fbi-director-trump-russia-investigation-7aca939dc25d4652815376f73e0f9aaf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/robert-mueller-fbi-director-trump-russia-investigation-7aca939dc25d4652815376f73e0f9aaf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/robert-muel</span><span class="invisible">ler-fbi-director-trump-russia-investigation-7aca939dc25d4652815376f73e0f9aaf</span></a></p>
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<p>James Fallows responds to Trump's statement about Robert Mueller's death — "Good. I'm glad he's dead":</p><p>"Any head of state who can say this in public about a countryman, even about a political adversary, is a moral monster."</p><p><a href="/tags/robertmueller/" rel="tag">#RobertMueller</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/moralmonster/" rel="tag">#MoralMonster</a> <a href="/tags/whitechristiannationalism/" rel="tag">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="/tags/whiteevangelicals/" rel="tag">#WhiteEvangelicals</a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://fallows.substack.com/p/one-man-a-hero-one-man-a-monster" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fallows.substack.com/p/one-man-a-hero-one-man-a-monster"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fallows.substack.com/p/one-man</span><span class="invisible">-a-hero-one-man-a-monster</span></a></p>