{"id":842856,"date":"2026-03-22T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/842856\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:22:20","slug":"backlash-after-trump-says-he-is-glad-special-prosecutor-who-pursued-russia-links-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/842856\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash after Trump says he is \u2018glad\u2019 special prosecutor who pursued Russia links is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Robert Mueller identified contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, but did not allege a criminal conspiracy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former FBI director Robert Mueller. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/-OBITUARY (20).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former FBI director Robert Mueller. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is growing backlash against US president Donald Trump, after he said he was glad to hear of the death of Robert Mueller, a special prosecutor who probed his links to Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The US technocrat who transformed the FBI into a terrorism-fighting force after the September 11 attacks, and later investigated ties between Russia and Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, died at the age of 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Mueller identified contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, but did not allege a criminal conspiracy Former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,332,85520,659],"class_list":["post-842856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia","tag-september-11-attacks","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116273043778861645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}