Some people compared Trump’s statement to tributes for Mueller from former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Others mentioned how some people on the left reacted after conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September.
“When Charlie Kirk was murdered, those of us on the conservative side rightly chastised those of our political adversaries who cheered and celebrated his death,” wrote law professor Robert P. George. “We accused them—again rightly—of shameful callousness and of polluting public discourse and coarsening social life. What President Trump does here merits the same chastisement, for the same reasons.”
On Saturday (March 21), liberal commentator Harry Sisson posted, “I expect every Republican who was outraged at people for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death to immediately condemn Trump for saying ‘I’m glad he’s dead’ about Robert Mueller. This is disgusting.” The next day, beside a clip of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defending Trump’s comment and calling for empathy for the president, Sisson wrote, “Absolutely pathetic.”
Like Bessent, other people defended Trump’s reaction, saying Mueller “did horrible dishonorable things to this country.” One commenter stated, “I understand why Trump hated [Mueller]. Perhaps Trump should forgive, but he isn’t there yet.”
Adam Kinzinger: Trump Is ‘Unfit for Office, and EVIL’
Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican who broke ranks with President Trump and voted to impeach him, called Trump’s comment about Robert Mueller’s death “a glimpse into something darker now sitting in the Oval Office.”
Kinzinger, a military veteran who served on the January 6th Committee, said Trump’s reaction is also “a glimpse into the heart of a coward who ran from service.” Unlike Mueller, who served in the Vietnam War, Trump received a minor medical deferment for bone spurs in his feet.
In a Substack post titled “A President Who Cheers a Veteran’s Death Is Unfit for Office, and EVIL,” Kinzinger described Mueller as a nonpartisan figure who believed that “nobody, not even the most powerful person in the world, is above the law.”
Republicans who don’t condemn Trump’s comments “are complicit in the normalization of cruelty as a governing philosophy,” Kinzinger wrote. The former lawmaker urged Americans not to become “numb” to Trump’s “depth of darkness.”
To Mueller, Kinzinger wrote, “Rest in peace…Your service meant something. Your country owes you more than this.”
