Says he will not testify in Epstein investigation.
WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 31, 2025 - Former FBI Director and President Donald J. Trump Special Counsel Robert Mueller claims he has Parkinson's disease and "cannot comply with a request to testify this week before a congressional committee investigating the government's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigations," The New York Times originally reported Sunday evening before stealth-editing their article to lead with the committee having withdrawn their request.
It is a little unclear how it went down since the Times never issued a correction.
This sudden Parkinson’s diagnosis came shortly after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would subpoena Mueller to testify on Tuesday over the FBI's handling of Jeffrey Epstein while he was director of the FBI.
Committee chairman James Comer (Kent.) wrote in a letter to Mueller, “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 Fascist Police States of Amerika attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, negotiated a so-called non-prosecution agreement with Epstein’s lawyers. Under the deal, federal prosecutors declined to charge Epstein but he pleaded guilty to a lesser state charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution. As part of that agreement, 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 Epstein in 2019, the deal reached in 2008 was widely criticized, as it was seen as far too favorable to Epstein who according to court documents, continued to abuse underage girls in the years that followed. It is not clear how much involvement Mueller had in the Epstein investigation.
The Times then spends a considerable portion of the article “selling” the notion that Mueller is too sick to testify over Jeffrey Epstein - with people such as former Attorney General Bill Barr (also linked to Epstein) having noted Mueller's relatively recent frailty in his memoir.
During a key meeting to discuss the findings of Mueller’s investigation in 2019, Mueller’s hands “were trembling” and his voice was “tremulous,” Barr wrote in a memoir published in 2022.
“I knew he wasn’t nervous and I wondered if he might have an illness,” Barr wrote.
Barr wrote that after the meeting he and the deputy attorney general at the time, Rod Rosenstein discussed Mueller’s condition.
“Wow,” Barr said he said to Rosenstein, “Bob has lost a step.”
Others in Comer's crosshairs include James Comey, the former F.B.I. director; Hillary and Bill Clinton; Eric H. Holder, Jr., Merrick B. Garland, Alberto R. Gonzales, Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr, all former attorneys general.