Former special counsel Robert Mueller broke his silence Saturday and defended his Russia investigation the day after President Trump commuted the sentence of one of its targets: Roger Stone.

Mueller, a former FBI director, wrote an opinion article in the Washington Post that Stone, a longtime friend and adviser to Trump, “remains a convicted felon, and rightfully so.”

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