Robert Mueller Has Died

https://apnews.com/article/robert-mueller-fbi-director-trump-russia-investigation-7aca939dc25d4652815376f73e0f9aaf

by WarOnPrivacy • 4 months ago

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hackyhacky• 4 months ago

Donald Trump's reaction, on Truth Social this afternoon, to Mueller's passing:

“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” [1]

What a great guy.

[1] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1162683345353...

wds• 4 months ago

If you were to have said this about Charlie Kirk, or inevitably Trump himself when it happens, you'd be treated like you had killed them yourself.

bayarearefugee2• 4 months ago

Many people literally lost their jobs for saying much kinder things about Kirk.

mindslight2• 4 months ago

The fascists' only use high minded ideals as rallying cries to influence people who don't do the work to apply those ideals to the fascists' own actions - whether they're doing it deliberately as a team sport, or have mostly checked out of politics. For those in the currently-designated ingroup, the hypocrisy is the point.

zmk52• 4 months ago

Didn’t he find no connections for Russiagate? Why is he so mad at him?

Edit: I’m being sincere with this question. I didn’t think he had a beef with Mueller and forgot the original report was never made public.

cco• 4 months ago

You mistook William Barr's partisan "summary" for the conclusion of Mueller's investigation.

mulletbum• 4 months ago

The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice. Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.

It absolutely said Trump was connected to Russiagate and very much broke the law, Mueller was forced to shut down the investigation.

WarmWash• 4 months ago

We'll never know for sure, but the most likely scenario is that Trump did not collude with Russia, but also did not impede them or create any friction for them trying to get him elected.

Russia wanted Trump to win, because they understood him as deeply destabilizing.

cosmicgadget8• 4 months ago

He referred his investigation to Congress because his boss (William Barr) said the DOJ cannot indict a sitting president.

SecretDreams3• 4 months ago

Quite the classy take... I believe many people lost their jobs expressing an opinion like this after Charlie Kirk died.

Edit: I am sadly expecting some brigading on this thread.

stackbutterflow• 4 months ago

Trump supporters and voters will have to live with the fact that they enabled this for the rest of their life. I do not envy them. Especially those that will snap out of it at some point.

leptons• 4 months ago

One guy spent 37 days in jail for posting trump's own words "We have to get over it" (about a school shooting that happened 2 years prior to Kirk's death)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXBqxOmYhA

rocketpastsix• 4 months ago

"rules for thee but not for me". People who said _anything_ they deemed disrespected after Kirk died was basically crucified but when it's against someone they deem an enemy they dont care at all.

k8sToGo• 4 months ago

Isn't he rage baiting? Now everyone talks about him again. Perfect for a narcissist.

spiderfarmer4• 4 months ago

Stop seeking ulterior motives. He's just an evil person.

spiderfarmer4• 4 months ago

I vehemently dislike everyone who still supports him.

davesque• 4 months ago

I believe technically this means I'm free to crack a bottle of champagne when Trump dies and incur no negative karma at all!

polotics2• 4 months ago

It would, but only once you have fallen under the spell of thinking meaning and authority was to be found there. Consider your zone has been flooded maybe?

seydor• 4 months ago

This is literally against TruthSocial's terms of use. If i was TS, i would suspend his account just to watch him fume.

DANmode2• 4 months ago

Donald Trump is the majority owner of Truth Social.

tombert5• 4 months ago

Classy. I'm so glad that half of America thought that this tactless felon who can't even speak a complete sentence would make a great president.

If this is just ok now, can I say something like "I'm glad Donald Trump was shot. He's a colossal douchebag"?

krapp4• 4 months ago

It's always morally correct to celebrate the death of evil men.

LocalH3• 4 months ago

Rules for thee and not for me

His entire MO

xnx• 4 months ago

On the one hand, disgusting behavior for a president.

On the other hand, I can see myself feeling something identical were someone else in particular to die.

polotics2• 4 months ago

Come on, seriously? Then you have fallen into an old trap.

As it implies you think it would be good if someone who has to be brought before a court of law to answer for their actions, someone who has to be given a chance to defend themselve, and to be judged fairly by an assembly of their peer, gets the opportunity to die without this public reckoning?

If this were to happen it would make me feel sad.

kjsingh• 4 months ago

guess he will be cancelled like those who didn't approve of Charlie Kirk even after his death

LocalH3• 4 months ago

He shat on Rob Reiner too, when Reiner was murdered by his son

embedding-shape• 4 months ago

His 448-page report released in April 2019 identified substantial contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia but did not allege a criminal conspiracy. Mueller laid out damaging details about Trump’s efforts to seize control of the investigation, and even shut it down, though he declined to decide whether Trump had broken the law, in part because of department policy barring the indictment of a sitting president.

It still boggles my mind that Trump was even allowed to run for president again, when he publicly and very evidently did whatever he could to try to stop the investigation of himself. In what world does it serve democracy well to let people like that even be candidates or involved in politics at all?

mpalmer• 4 months ago

Your question would seem to be self-answering.

SecretDreams3• 4 months ago

In what world does it serve democracy well to let people like that even be candidates or involved in politics at all?

In a world where the population has been systematically trained to vote against their best interests.

bayarearefugee2• 4 months ago

In what world does it serve democracy well to let people like that even be candidates or involved in politics at all?

You are assuming that Trump's supporters care about the continuation of democracy, which is pretty clearly often not the case.

The only person who really had the means to put an end to Trump politically after his first term was Joe Biden, and people should absolutely never forgive him for his failure on that front.

jimkleiber• 4 months ago

I think when we say that an executive is the only one to put an end to another executive in power, we overlook how the problem might be that the parties have deadlocked Congress and the legislative branch is one to take power back from the executive branch.

the_gastropod• 4 months ago

Aaaaaabsolutely not. The president should have virtually no say in who is allowed or not allowed to run an election against them.

All but 7 Republicans in the Senate voted he was not guilty in his impeachment trial. They were gifted the opportunity to do the right thing, and they unquestionably failed.

mullingitover• 4 months ago

In what world does it serve democracy

It's a feature.

All the richest sociopaths in SV have latched onto the meme that democracy and (their) freedom (to do whatever they want to the lower classes) aren't compatible, and these people bought control of the algorithms that are currently brainwashing anyone within eyeshot of a screen.

plagiarist3• 4 months ago

I sure wish anyone other than a handful of Congress could become interested in serving democracy rather than filling their pockets.

tombert5• 4 months ago

He bragged about trying to stop the investigation! That's why Robert Mueller was appointed the first time. He went on TV and talked about how he fired Comey for even starting the investigation into Russia.

kcplate7• 4 months ago

It still boggles my mind that Trump was even allowed to run for president again

He was at least 35, a natural born citizen of the US, had residency for at least 14 years prior to his candidacy, only served a single term prior, and was never charged and convicted with insurrection.

Of course he was allowed, he met all the constitutional criteria to serve.

cosmicgadget8• 4 months ago

Colorado begs to differ.

WarOnPrivacy• 4 months ago

I get why this got flagged and I'm kind of sad for that.

I found Mueller to be highly ethical at times and driven by irrationality (to the point of disingenuousness) at other times. There was a lot to cover about him.

UncleMeat2• 4 months ago

Queen of England dies? Not flagged.

Chuck Norris dies? Not flagged.

There's a very particular kind of thing that gets flagged.

skygazer• 4 months ago

What I find most interesting is that HN posters seem to overwhelmingly skew liberal, but HN flaggers lean extremist “conservative”. They rarely post, but completely control the discourse of the posters. Thats a crazy dynamic.

archagon• 4 months ago

Why is this eulogy flagged but the Chuck Norris eulogy not? Mods? Some consistency would be nice.

LocalH3• 4 months ago

There are a non-zero amount of HN users who are blinded by Trump's reality distortion field

awnird• 4 months ago

The core demographic here is elderly American racists.

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