Trump on Robert Mueller’s Death: ‘Good, I’m Glad He’s Dead’

Donald Trump celebrated the death of Robert Mueller on Saturday, writing that he was “glad” the former FBI director and special counsel who investigated the president’s 2016 campaign had died. “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social shortly after MS Now broke the news that the 81-year-old former FBI Director had died.

Trump regularly attacked Mueller over the investigation, alleging the veteran and lifelong public servant was part of a vast, illegal Democratic conspiracy to remove Trump from power. Trump has leveled similar attacks against former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who oversaw the Justice Department’s investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, and Trump hoarding classified material at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left office in 2021.

Trump’s crowing about Mueller’s death is not the first time the president has relished the death of his perceived enemies. When beloved director and frequent Trump critic Rob Reiner was brutally killed in...