President Donald Trump on Saturday cheered the death of Robert S. Mueller III, a towering figure in federal law enforcement whom the president viewed as a leading antagonist and the face of efforts to undermine his presidency. Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. The open celebration of Mueller’s demise fits a pattern for the president, whose instinct for bombast does not yield, even in death. Trump has sought to reduce Mueller in public memory to his last major role — and worked to discredit him. Rep. Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio) said Saturday on X that he respected Mueller’s longtime service to the country “no matter how controversial the Mueller investigation was.”
