Mueller Has Parkinson’s And Conspiracy Streams Begin To Cross

Political social media was lit on fire on Sunday night when the New York Times dropped the announcement from the Mueller family that former FBI director and special prosecutor Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease four years ago.

The reason for the disclosure right now? Mueller, as head of the FBI between 2001 and 2013, was the person in charge during the original Jeffrey Epstein investigation. House Oversight chairman Representative James Comer was planning to subpoena Mueller to get his testimony.

Mr. Comer said in a letter to Mr. Mueller on Aug. 5. that “during your tenure as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013, the F.B.I. investigated Jeffrey Epstein for sex crimes.”

He added: “Because you were F.B.I. director during the time when Mr. Epstein was under investigation by the F.B.I., the committee believes that you possess knowledge and information relevant to its investigation.”

In 2008, the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, negotiated a so-called nonprosecution agreement with Mr. Epstein’s lawyers. Under the deal, federal prosecutors declined to charge Mr. Epstein but he pleaded guilty to a lesser state charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution. As part of that agreement, Mr. Epstein served 13 months at a local prison, where he was allowed to leave custody and work out of his office six days a week.

After federal prosecutors indicted Mr. Epstein in 2019, the deal reached in 2008 was widely criticized, as it was seen as far too favorable to Mr. Epstein, who, according to court documents, continued to abuse underage girls in the years that followed. It is not clear how much involvement Mr. Mueller had in the Epstein investigation.

But then the Mueller family put out a statement to the NYT regarding his diagnosis and health, which promptly blew up any chance of having him testify.

In recent months, Mr. Mueller, a former F.B.I. director, has had difficulty speaking and experienced mobility issues, people familiar with his condition said. As a result, a congressional committee has withdrawn a request for Mr. Mueller to give testimony this week in its inquiry into the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigations.

“Bob was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in the summer of 2021,” the family said in a statement to The New York Times. “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. His family asks that his privacy be respected.”

The statement from the family came after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would subpoena him to testify on Tuesday. The committee had sought to question Mr. Mueller, 81, about the F.B.I.’s handling of the Epstein investigation when he served as its director from 2001 to 2013.

That… is a rather hefty bombshell. First of all, a Parkinson’s diagnosis is very sad and obviously carries a lot of weight for a family who will have to go through this. And once the statement was released via the Times, the House Oversight Committee announced that they had withdrawn the subpoena request. The public chapter of Robert Mueller’s life seems to be officially closed.

However, the personal aspect to the story is not stopping the speculation on social media. Thanks to his role as both FBI director and as special prosecutor, Robert Mueller now stands in the middle of two very hotly debated stories – the Jeffrey Epstein case, and the Russiagate investigation which resulted in the Mueller Report. In other words, the streams are crossing, and the conspiracy speculation on X took off almost instantly.

There are those on X who are insisting that Mueller is “faking” the Parkinson’s diagnosis in order to avoid testifying about Epstein. This seems highly unlikely, and the biggest reason why is because back in 2019, when Mueller went before Congress and gave testimony regarding his report, something was clearly off with him.

After that testimony, the Democrats essentially gave up on trying to make the Mueller Report happen, and even those who knew him commented that something was wrong.

The attorney general at the time of Mr. Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation, William P. Barr, and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who would end up at odds with the special counsel over their handling of his report, wondered to each other in 2019 after seeing Mr. Mueller face to face in a meeting whether he was ill, according to a book by Mr. Barr.

Defenders of Mr. Mueller and those who worked directly for him on the investigation have said that while Mr. Mueller showed his age during the special counsel investigation, he was sharp and fully in command of his team, and made all of its major investigative decisions.

During a key meeting to discuss the findings of Mr. Mueller’s investigation in 2019, Mr. Mueller’s hands “were trembling” and his voice was “tremulous,” Mr. Barr wrote in a memoir published in 2022.

“I knew he wasn’t nervous, and I wondered if he might have an illness,” Mr. Barr wrote.

Mr. Barr wrote that after the meeting, he and the deputy attorney general at the time, Mr. Rosenstein, discussed Mr. Mueller’s condition.

“Wow,” Mr. Barr said he said to Mr. Rosenstein. “Bob has lost a step.”

Hindsight being 20/20, there are now open questions about just how long Mueller has been dealing with the symptoms of Parkinson’s. His family says that the diagnosis was “four years ago,” which would place it sometime in 2021. It is entirely probable that what we saw in 2019 were early-onset symptoms – but just HOW long had Mueller been dealing with those? This has now opened up the flip side of the “faking it” theory, which is the “he’s been sick the whole time” theory.

And let’s not forget why Robert Mueller was picked in the first place by Rod Rosenstein.

“Surely, Mollie, you’ll concede that your criticism of the Mueller probe as a partisan hit job seems outlandish given that Mueller is himself a Bush-era Republican!”

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 1, 2025

The entire point of choosing Mueller was to make the Russiagate investigation look “legitimate.” Well, hindsight has made a mess of that “legitimacy,” given what we now have found out regarding the entire Russiagate investigation. And now the special counsel investigation looks to be even more of a mess than it was, and we still don’t know why the Mueller team wiped data off their phones before the DOJ could examine them. Since phones don’t magically wipe themselves, the assumption was that the special counsel’s team was hiding something. Is it possible that Mueller – whom people claimed as “sharp and fully in command” during the investigation (where have we heard that before?) – wasn’t nearly as healthy or helpful or making the decisions that he was supposed to be making?

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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 1, 2025

This announcement leaves the American public with more questions than answers, but there will be no answers coming from Robert Mueller himself. It was probably unlikely that he had much to contribute to the Epstein investigation, but now we will never be certain of that. Also, knowing that this diagnosis is four years old now opens up the entire staff of the Mueller investigation to questions about what they knew, and what they saw. While we can wish Mueller some peace in his declining years, it is also reasonable to wish that this entire speculative mess that he is leaving behind could get some actual answers, and not just be condemned to the realm of conspiracy theories in perpetuity.

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