Where Is He Now? The Most Mysterious Man In Washington’s Next Steps

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Ann Mueller and Special Counsel Robert Mueller walk on March 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Special counsel Robert Mueller has delivered his report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 pr... WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Ann Mueller and Special Counsel Robert Mueller walk on March 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Special counsel Robert Mueller has delivered his report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election to Attorney General William Barr. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Everything about Special Counsel Robert Mueller is antithetical to the Trump age: he’s understated, dislikes the public eye and finds gossip beneath him.

According to a Monday New York Times report, even his restaurant of choice during his tenure as special counsel reflected that: the drab and unhip Salt & Pepper a few miles from his office where he’d eat scallops and sip white wine with friends.

The exceptionally rare sightings of Mueller — at an Apple store, at a 7-11 — only increased the intrigue around Washington’s most discussed lawyer.

Now that his report is finished, he has options. As the Times points out, he could pull a James Comey and write a tell-all — but friends say he’s too private to do that. He could take to Twitter or the lecture circuit to be a voice of authority on the dirtiest dealings in the Trump orbit.

Or he could return to his swanky D.C. law firm where he defended corporations and nonprofits from a twelfth-floor corner office.

And according to those that know him best, he is most like to slip back into that world of cufflinks and Brooks Brothers suits, away from the piercing spotlight of the two-year investigation.

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  1. Avatar for robg robg says:

    I wouldn’t be able to keep quiet if I met him in person. I would have to tell him he let America down by letting a witness and accessory to the crime and a prejudiced AG decide the fate of the obstruction case. That he narrowly defined conspiracy with Russia to be exactly what the criminal preferred and not what any real accusor said. That he abdicated his responsibility to the country and that he should probably go somewhere he can live out the rest of his shameless days. I am totally disenthralled by this republican former fbi director.

  2. Scarborough just went on a serious rant…LOL
    Don’t normally watch, but kind of glad I did this morning.

  3. Oh yea, he did. I rather enjoyed it.

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