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Many Americans did not need further proof that Donald Trump is a detestable person, but Trump on Saturday provided some anyway by trashing the memory of the late Robert Mueller, who served his country as FBI director, special counsel for the Russia-election interference investigation, and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. When Trump said he was glad Mueller was dead, it showed that, just when you thought Trump could not get any worse, he proved that he could.
Americans of all political stripes took notice, and one who spoke out the loudest was Adam Kinzinger, a former officer in the U.S. Air Force and a six-term congressman from Illinois. Under the headline "A President Who Cheers a Veteran's Death is Unfit for Office, and EVIL," Kinzinger writes at Substack:
Robert Mueller died Friday night. He was 81 years old. He was a Marine who volunteered for Vietnam, was wounded in combat, and was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for pulling one of his injured soldiers to safety under enemy fire. He served his country as FBI Director for twelve years — appointed by a Republican, asked to stay by a Democrat — and never became a partisan figure. His entire career was defined by one thing: a belief that nobody, not even the most powerful person in the world, is above the law.
And the President of the United States responded to news of his death by posting, within minutes: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.”
Let that sink in. The sitting president of the United States — cheering the death of an American veteran, a decorated public servant, a man who gave his life to this country in uniform and in the courtroom. Not a political opponent. Not a rival. A man who had Parkinson’s disease and died at 81, his family asking only that their privacy be respected.
This is where we are.
But even with a decade of seeing exactly who Donald Trump is, today stopped me cold.
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