Prosecutor DESTROYS Trump after he cheered Mueller’s death

You're watching The Legal Breakdown. Glenn, Donald Trump just came out and made something of an announcement that turned everybody's head this weekend. I'm going to put that right here on the screen. Robert Mueller just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people. President Donald J. Trump. Now, you worked as a federal prosecutor for 30 years. One of your mentors was Robert Mueller. So can I have your reaction to this screed posted by Trump? Yeah.

You know, Brian, I hate to even refer to it because it is so indecent and vulgar and disqualifying. I mean, I really wish somebody would step up and announce just how unfit this man is to be president of the United States, whether you remove him for unfitness or you impeach him for, you know, his whole buffet of high crimes and misdemeanors that he has committed.

But when he talks that way about somebody, and I'm gonna use this term advisedly, who is an American hero, I mean, Donald Trump obviously knows nothing of Bob Mueller's backstory, or if he does, he just doesn't give a shit.

The man was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran war hero, you know, literally dragged injured troops out of enemy fire to try to save them as half of his unit was being mowed down. Not long after that, Brian, he was he was shot in the thigh. They sent him to a hospital. They wanted to send him back to the States. He said, oh hell no, patch me up, put me back out there with my troops. He was a lieutenant in the Marine Corps at the time. That's what, and

if you ever read the the the commendations and medals and awards he received, it goes on endlessly. Of course, he also became the FBI director one week, one week before 9-11, before our country was attacked. And I mean, talk about stepping up to head the Bureau at a time that is fraught with peril for our nation. That was the time when Bob Mueller stepped up and took control of the Bureau and helped

actually convert it into what was a domestic law enforcement agency to really a global counterterrorism police force. So, you know, and plus, he was my boss. He was he was just Bob to us. I had an office directly next to him. I like to think I was his right-hand man in many respects.

And importantly, Brian, you know, I talked a lot during the Mueller investigation and the Mueller report about the way Bob Mueller went about conducting investigations and the reason I could talk about that, know, in an informed way, you know, Bob and I had the same boss for a period of

time at the DC US Attorney's Office. Our boss was Eric Holder. He was the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. I don't know if you wanted endless war stories from me, Brian, but you're gonna get them anyway. He was, he was the United States Attorney for the District them anyway. He was the United States attorney for the District of Columbia. He was my boss, he was Bob Mueller's boss.

Bob just wanted to be a homicide prosecutor in the DC office until Eric Holder said, you know what, the current chief of homicide is leaving. Bob, I'd like you to step up and become chief. Bob didn't wanna become chief. He had been a United States attorney

in Massachusetts previously, and he stepped all the way down. He just wanted to be on the line with us grunts, the people who were going into court every day, trying murder cases in Washington, D.C. But ultimately, Eric Holder convinced him

to become the chief of homicide, a position that I would then take not long after he left. He not only taught me how to be a homicide prosecutor, but he taught me how to run the homicide section at the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office. But here's the point of that long ramble. When Bob was made chief of homicide,

I inherited some of the cases that he had investigated and indicted in the grand jury, including a case involving a shooting of a MPD police officer. So what I got to see firsthand, Brian, is because I would go on to try the cases that he indicted, was Bob Mueller's grand jury work, the investigation he put together. Talk about detailed, meticulous, aggressive, in a way that frankly was far better than

any grand jury investigation I ever put together. And so, you know, I can talk in an informed way about the kind of investigation Bob Mueller ran. And that was obviously so important because when Bob Mueller was named special counsel to look into all things Trump-Russia, right?

Contacts between Trump's campaign and, you know, Russian individuals and Russian agents and Russian officials, and Bob Mueller cataloged more than a hundred and forty contacts between those folks and the Trump campaign, but even more importantly, in volume two of the Mueller report, he laid out as many as ten felony obstruction of justice crimes. He didn't say Donald Trump committed a crime because our ethics don't permit us to say that unless we are prosecuting the person, but he laid out all the evidence and then

he delivered it to Congress. And Brian, I believe he thought Congress would do exactly what they did in 1974 with Richard Nixon when the tapes were revealed, Richard Nixon's crimes were disclosed. The Republicans marched on the Oval Office and said to President Nixon,

you're done, resign, or you're gonna be impeached and removed. I really believe to my core, Bob Mueller thought when he delivered volume two to Congress, they would act. They would do what was in the interest

of the American people and proceed to impeach and remove Donald Trump. I also thought that Donald Trump would be prosecuted for those obstruction of justice crimes after Trump left office, but of course Merrick Garland had other ideas. He didn't have an appetite to prosecute Donald Trump for any of his crimes. So to see what Donald Trump now says about Bob Mueller, it's inhumane.

It's beyond just kind of indecent and vulgar and obscene. It's inhumane to sort of celebrate somebody's death when you're the president of the United States and you're talking about a bona fide war hero who laid it all on the line for his, you know, brothers in arms and for our nation dating all the way back to the Vietnam War.

So you know what, it's one of the many things that is disqualifying of Donald Trump to, you know, be a dog catcher, never mind president of the United States.

I think one point that's that's telling, you know, I'm seeing a lot of people again, see his response to the death of Robert Mueller and say, you know, Donald Trump has hit a new low. But I really don't think that this is a new low. I think that this is as low as he's always been. I mean, people forget because, you know, every week in the Trump era feels like another year. But just three months ago when Rob Reiner died, Donald Trump came out and posted on TruSocial that Rob Reiner and his wife had passed away, and I'm going to quote here,

reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness. So he has a proclivity here to dance on the graves of anybody who he

perceives as being his political enemy. And Brian, is there any lingering doubt in anybody's mind that Donald Trump is one a sadist who celebrates you know the the harm to others who enjoys and revels in the suffering of others whether it is suffering you know at his hands a product of his conduct or they just happen to you know be suffering for other reasons, as we saw with the Reiner family, as we saw now with Bob Mueller. He's a sadist and a malignant narcissist.

The man does not have a thimble full of empathy or compassion or kindness or concern for his fellow human beings. And how Republicans in Congress can continue to stand by this man, because as far as I'm concerned, if they don't stand against him, they cosign everything he says and everything he does.

You know, I agree with you, Brian, this is always where he has dwelled in the rock bottom of of humanity.

And you know, the interesting part of all of this, of his hatred, his utter contempt for Robert Mueller, is that Robert Mueller was investigating his campaign's collusion with Russia, which by the way, resulted in convictions of 34 people, three companies, including guilty pleas

from Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign chairman, including Rick Gates, who is Manafort's deputy, including Michael Flynn, who is Trump's national security advisor, George Papadopoulos, who is a foreign policy advisor, Roger Stone was convicted of obstruction, false statements, and witness tampering, Michael Cohen, who was his personal lawyer and fixer, was pleaded guilty to false statements. So it's not like any of this was unfounded. It's not like Donald Trump was the victim

of some like vindictive prosecution or selective prosecution or weaponized government. They resulted in legitimate convictions and a bunch of guilty pleas from Donald Trump's own inner circle.

Yeah, so Brian, Donald Trump is forever calling any investigation that endeavors to hold him accountable for his crimes a witch hunt, right? Well, if the Trump-Russia investigation was a witch hunt, then Bob Mueller found a whole damn coven full of witches and held them accountable for the crimes they actually committed. And you know, we will look back in history,

we'll accurately record what Bob Mueller did in service to this nation as the FBI director under both George Bush and then President Barack Obama extended Bob Mueller's term after it was up, what he did in Vietnam, what he did in the Trump-Russia investigation. And then if you'll permit me

just a quick personal remembrance of Bob. So after he left our office, the DC US Attorney's Office, not long thereafter, he became the director of the FBI one week before the planes hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and went down in that field in Pennsylvania.

One week before our nation was attacked, he took over as director of the FBI. Not long after that, he came back to our office, the DC US Attorney's Office, to address all of the employees, given that he was now the director of the FBI.

And I had the honor of introducing him to our office, even though most of us obviously knew who he was. And I can still remember what I said. You know, first of all, I intentionally mispronounced his name, even though I had worked for him for years,

just for fun, because I think we had a very good relationship. I said, so I'm looking at pretending to look at my index card. This is Robert Mueller, how is it that you pronounce? And when he walked up, he gave me a little fake punch like he was gonna hit me.

And you know, so we were playing, we were having fun. But then I turned serious and I said, you know, in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, the attack on our nation, it was dark. It was heavy. It could almost feel a little hopeless.

And there wasn't much consolation to be found. But I, for one, took a great deal of comfort and consolation in the knowledge that the person who would be heading the FBI in this time that is so fraught with peril for our nation, that man is Bob Mueller, and that gave me comfort and consolation that we were going to be able to move through this. And I meant that to my core, and I think, you know, he proved that he was up to the task of directing the FBI longest serving FBI director, I think, other than J. Edgar Hoover. And he's an American hero.

May he rest in peace. And may Donald Trump shut his fat orange pie hole in saying these horrific

things about the dead. Well, look, I, you know, I think it was important that that you have the opportunity to give the obituary that he deserved and some memories of your time with him that clearly the president of the United States is incapable of doing. So I'm sorry for your loss, because, you know, as you and I had spoken about here and off camera prior to this, he was a mentor to you. So I am sorry for your loss, and I'm glad that you had the opportunity to say a few

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