AFP/Saul Loeb via Getty Images The former special counsel Robert Mueller published a Washington Post op-ed on Saturday defending the Russia investigation just one day after President Donald Trump commuted Roger Stone's sentence. Mueller wrote that despite Stone's commutation, he "remains a convicted felon, and rightly so." Mueller appeared to fire back at the Trump administration's claims that Stone was a "victim of the Russia Hoax." "The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity.