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BumRushDaShow

(172,307 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:40 AM Sep 2025

Mueller's family tells NYT he has Parkinson's after dropped House appearance

Source: The Hill

09/01/25 8:29 AM ET


Former special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated ties between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease four years ago, his family told The New York Times on Sunday.

“Bob was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in the summer of 2021,” the statement to the Times read. “He retired from the practice of law at the end of that year. He taught at his law school alma mater during the fall of both 2021 and 2022, and he retired at the end of 2022,” the statement continued. “His family asks that his privacy be respected.”

A congressional committee had sought testimony from Mueller in its probe of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Mueller served as FBI director in 2008, when a 60-count draft indictment against Epstein was dropped in exchange for his guilty plea to two lesser state prostitution charges. The so-called non-prosecution agreement was widely criticized after Epstein’s 2019 indictment, which accused him of continuing to abuse underage girls after his short stint in a local prison a decade earlier.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5480150-robert-mueller-parkinsons-diagnosis/



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Mueller's family tells NYT he has Parkinson's after dropped House appearance (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP
Sad way to end a successful life for Mueller and hiis family. riversedge Sep 2025 #1
Yes, but this is a sad way for all of us to end our lives in this situation Walleye Oct 2025 #3
That shouldn't stop him from leaking all the damaging testimony he collected against Chump FakeNoose Sep 2025 #2

Walleye

(45,484 posts)
3. Yes, but this is a sad way for all of us to end our lives in this situation
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:53 AM
Oct 2025

I don’t see it getting any better in the time I have left. I’m 76 years old.

FakeNoose

(42,426 posts)
2. That shouldn't stop him from leaking all the damaging testimony he collected against Chump
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:50 AM
Sep 2025

Just sayin'

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