“Robert Mueller just died,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
Mueller served as special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and became a target for Trump and his MAGA base. His family announced last August that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2021.
While Mueller’s investigation uncovered contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election, Mueller declined to charge Trump with obstruction, saying that while he had sufficient evidence to charge Trump, he was prohibited because Trump was the sitting president at the time.
Despite this, Trump spent years attacking Mueller for an investigation that ultimately let him off the hook.
Less than an hour after expressing glee at the death of Mueller, Trump was back to his usual attacks on Truth Social.
“The Fascist Democrats will never protect America, but the Republicans will,” Trump said in a post threatening to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to patrol airports across the U.S.
