{"id":69637,"date":"2026-03-21T12:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/former-fbi-director-robert-mueller-dies-at-81-trump-reacts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:59:19","slug":"former-fbi-director-robert-mueller-dies-at-81-trump-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/former-fbi-director-robert-mueller-dies-at-81-trump-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI Director Robert Mueller dies at 81, Trump reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has died at the age of 81, and President Donald Trump gave a sharp reaction on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Robert Mueller just died,&#8221; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116268334535345382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted<\/a> on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good, I\u2019m glad he\u2019s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller led the FBI from 2001 to 2013 and later served as special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, a probe that shadowed much of Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has died at the age of 81, and President Donald Trump gave a sharp reaction on Truth Social. &#8220;Robert Mueller just died,&#8221; Trump posted on Truth Social. &#8220;Good, I\u2019m glad he\u2019s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!&#8221; Trump added. Mueller led the FBI from 2001 to 2013 and &#8230; <a title=\"Former FBI Director Robert Mueller dies at 81, Trump reacts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/former-fbi-director-robert-mueller-dies-at-81-trump-reacts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former FBI Director Robert Mueller dies at 81, Trump reacts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}