Robert Mueller III was a Bronze Star Marine veteran, an FBI director, and an American citizen. When the president of the United States heard the news that Mueller died today, he put it this way: 'Good, I'm glad he's dead.' Mueller was honored for his service in Vietnam, and served presidents of both parties as the director of the nation's top law-enforcement agency. Donald Trump, whose diagnosis of bone spurs kept him from being sent to that same war, has repeatedly denigrated the American war dead as 'losers' and 'suckers,' and has expressed disgust in the presence of wounded troops ('No one wants to see that, the wounded,' Trump once complained to the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Trump has never tried to be the president of all Americans. That deficiency was on grotesque display as he celebrated the death of someone who devoted his life to the country Trump now leads. Of course, Mueller spearheaded the investigation into whether there was collusion between Russia...
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