Robert Mueller has passed.. Trump's response? "Good, I'm glad he's dead." That's the President of the United States celebrating the passing of a decorated combat veteran who earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart in Vietnam and served as FBI director for 12 years. On social media. Like a literal sociopath.

Mueller led the FBI through the aftermath of 9/11, appointed by a Republican president and asked to stay by a Democratic one. Confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Twice. None of that mattered to the man who spent years calling Mueller's investigation a "witch hunt" because it got too close to the truth.

Former President Obama called Mueller "one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI." George W. Bush said he was "deeply saddened" and credited Mueller with helping prevent another terrorist attack on American soil.

Two presidents honored him. The third shit on his legacy in the rudest possible way. 

For those who've been gaslit into forgetting what Mueller actually found: his investigation lasted 22 months, resulted in 34 indictments and six convictions of Trump campaign associates. 

He identified substantial contacts between Trump's campaign and Russia and documented the president's repeated efforts to shut the whole thing down.

His most memorable conclusion still rings: "If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state." They could not state that.

Mueller wasn't perfect. Many progressives were frustrated he didn't go further. He believed the institutions would hold. They didn't. 

But that failure belongs to the politicians who buried his findings, not the man who meticulously documented them.

He handed this country a 448-page roadmap to accountability. We chose not to follow it. And now the man who should have been held accountable is celebrating the death of the man who tried.

Rest in peace, Robert Mueller. You deserved better than this.