Robert Mueller, the former FBI Director who headed up an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, passed away yesterday of complications of Parkinson's Disease at the age of 81.
Upon learning of Mueller's death, President Trump acted true to form on Truth Social:
Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP
That Trump should make such a vile comment is sadly unsurprising lest we forget his unsavory comments about Rob and Michele Reiner following their horrific murder last December and his cruelty towards Renee Good after she was murdered in cold blood by an ICE agent in January.
However, it must be said that Trump isn't the only one who delights in the deaths of people. Take a look at all the people who delighted in the death of Chuck Norris because his politics was different from theirs.
Of course, none of these people hold the office of President of the United States and ought to be held to a higher standard no matter how much he has degraded that office. Then again, we freely chose to elevate him to that very office - twice.
The fact that Trump has twice been elected President of the United States, it is difficult to see what harm Robert Mueller did against him.
The DoJ appointed Mueller to head up an investigation concerning Russian interference in the 2016 election and did not charge Trump with a crime albeit largely due to a DoJ Memo from 2000 which advises that Presidents cannot be indicted while in office. Mueller did subsequently state that criminal investigations could be launched against Trump once he left office.
Now Trump was the subject of multiple investigations after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden although none of them directly pertained to anything arising from the Mueller Report. The two Jack Smith led investigations concerned Trump's actions during January 6th and his handling of classified records during his first term in office, Fani Willis' investigation in Fulton County, Georgia concerned his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in that state while the Alvin Bragg investigation in New York concerned the falsification of business records up to and during the 2016 election.
Trump was convicted by a jury on multiple counts following Bragg's investigation but received an unconditional discharge before returning to the White House last year, the Georgia election interference case was dropped and both of Jack Smith's investigations were dismissed albeit without prejudice.
When it comes to the Mueller Report, I would argue that more harm came to Robert Mueller than to Donald Trump. It has been almost a year to the day when revelations came that WilmerHale, his old law firm, scrubbed all references that Mueller had ever worked for the firm.
While Robert Mueller never hurt anyone, the same cannot be said for Donald Trump. When Trump dies, I will not rejoice. But I will be able to say that Trump won't be able to hurt anyone anymore.
R.I.P. Robert Mueller.
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