James Comey; Robert Mueller; Donald Trump (Credit: Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla/Staff/Alex Wong / Staff/Darren McCollester /Stringer) Former FBI Director James Comey was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller in 2017 as part of the ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged campaign ties to the Russian government. Comey discussed the series of memos in which he documented actions by Trump that had “unnerved” the former FBI brass, The New York Times reported.