Robert Mueller during his FBI farewell ceremony in 2013. Now, he’s stepping down from the DOJ a second time, presumably to eat more scallops.

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A notoriously tight-lipped, scallop-liking resident of Georgetown took the rare action of addressing the nation on Wednesday morning.

Robert Mueller announced that he is stepping down as the special counsel at the Department of Justice, now that his investigation and report of Russian interference in the 2016 election is complete. He encouraged people to read the 448-page report, which included mentions of local spots and yet another refutation of conspiracies theories that have emerged about a 2016 unsolved murder in Bloomingdale.

But Mueller’s statement was not an absolution for another D.C. transplant, President Donald Trump. “If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mueller said at the podium. He added that charging a sitting president was not an option for the special counsel.

Now that the former head of the FBI has returned to private life, D.C. denizens might expect to see Mueller and his wife dining in their regular booth at Salt & Pepper, a restaurant in the Palisades he’s known to frequent. They’re both seafood fans, Politico Pro reports (he likes the scallops and she’s a fan of the caesar salad with salmon). He’s also been spotted at the Georgetown Apple store, and the much-derided Gate 35X at National Airport. But Mueller is not much of a scenester, and there are few instances where the paparazzi-like fervor around the septuagenarian has captured him out and about in the District.

During his statement, Mueller cautioned that he wouldn’t say anything further about the investigation beyond the report’s findings. “I hope and expect this will be the only time I will speak to you in this manner,” he said. In short, he told people to leave him alone.