Donald Trump has been condemned as a “vile, disgusting man” and a “sick human being” after gloating over the death of Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Mueller, a decorated Vietnam war veteran who led a politically explosive investigation into Trump, died on Friday aged 81, triggering a callous reaction from the US president.

“Robert Mueller just died,” Trump responded quickly on his Truth Social platform. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”

Even by the president’s own norm-shredding standards, the comment was unusually harsh. There was a chorus of opprobrium from the “Never Trump” movement in his own Republican party.

Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, wrote on X: “@realDonaldTrump you are a vile disgusting man. Petty and pathetic, you are a hypocrite who reeks of weakness and insecurities with no moral core. Regardless of the politics, the American people should be embarrassed and ashamed for ever having entrusted you with leadership.”

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[–] 89 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

Where are all the “respect Charlie Kirk” people at?

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    They are saying Trump restrained himself and could've been harsher.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    To this day I don't know how these people can seriously look at themselves in the mirror and not see the hypocrisy and irony of their life. Like, deep down, somewhere under the blackened heart of bigotry and ignorance and vile putrid that represents their view of their fellow man; they know they're actually a piece of shit and the bad guys, right?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They're no hypocrisy in white supremacy. "Us good, them bad" is reprehensible, but consistent.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    They were pointing out specifically the fact that the people who would defend trump on this were adamant that any negative comment about that piece of shit CK was horrifically disrespectful.

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  • [–] 126 points 7 months ago (43 children)

    He doesn't even realize that the day he dies, his own tweet from today will be reshared millions of times. People cannot wait for this son of a bitch to die.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (33 children)

    People cannot wait for this son of a bitch to die.

    True. Some are not waiting.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (27 children)

    This story is bs, kirk was not shot by a 30.06 or however you write thirty ought six in numbers. It's a high powered rifle, that would have left a fist sized exit wound out of his neck. That gun, at that distance, would have made a very different wound.

    He did not dissassemble the weapon in 1 minute into that tiny little pack and flee the roof, and the sheriff brought gun sniffing dogs right by that chicken coop and didn't hit anything, until the FBI showed up, took control, and found it right off, fully assembled.

    The story is bs, and lemmy moderators are sometimes in on covering it up strangely.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Terminal ballistics is basically chaos theory at work. Rifle rounds aren't packed with explosives, they can leave relatively clean exits regardless of how much ass they have behind them. The round might have only traveled through a few inches of flesh which isn't really enough to destabilize a round like that.

    The going theory, one they have on video, mind, is that he stuffed the rifle down his pants while he scrambled off the roof, no disassembly. He hobbled to the treeline and disposed of it.

    This is "the Las Vegas shooting was done by multiple CIA operatives with belt-fed machine guns to force a gun ban" levels of analysis. There's a plausible explanation, but it's more convenient for some people's political biases to believe in a conspiracy.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    We have seen the video, he didn't have a rifle down his pants, come now. Link this video and argue that please if you think that.

    The gun enthusiasts also used weaker and older rounds from the world wars era just to defeat these issues you mention, and they still made a different wound.

    Why are you defending an obviously false narrative?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (24 children)

    Love it.

    Don't believe it. But love it. keep going!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (23 children)

    Bro, or sis, it's absolutely true. A 30 ought six can shoot through a half inch of steel at that range. This has been demonstrated by the gun enthusiasts online. They shot all manner of objects, chunks of beef, steel plate, you name it, to demonstrate.

    These rifles kill moose, elk, bear, from a distance. They have a serious foot per second to them. Like military rifles, but with a bigger caliber.

    As with the other points. It's true, the story is bs. It's undeniably true.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (19 children)

    Maybe it was just a crazy kid with a gun. Maybe not go all molten steel beams on this one.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (18 children)

    Maybe you are denying reality because parts of the right wing are pushing reality for a change on this one.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (15 children)

    I am very sure, positive, the story is bullshit x3.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (13 children)

    No. I am positive that others are The Architects of this. I like many others suspect Israel and their factions, because reasons. Including Kirk rejecting their board pricks, yes that's not a typo, rejecting their vision for his own not that he's a good guy he's a piece of shit obviously. They wanted to turn this into a Nazi youth Organization, and to police schools. Which it turns out is what they are doing now.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    I am all for waiting until the evidence is presented and not a lot of conjecture and nebulous rabbit holes. It just sounds very tinfoiley.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Ha ha, ok wait for the evidence as our system is so trustworthy.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    You are right I should go on wild flights of fantasy to arrive at the truth.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Because israeli influence in American politics is a flight of fancy? Get the fuck out.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (8 children)

    You're all over the place. Now the Israelis assassinated Charlie Kirk? Can you land on one conspiracy theory at least or is it all the same secret web of lies that you alone have been able to penetrate?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    We have all seen the truth that is behind operation Epstein's Fury. We know.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    So what is the proposition here, I still fail to grasp it. You claim that who killed Kirk, and why? And why isn't it the kid? And how does that all fit together?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Israel's faction did that. They're active in the US now. Welcome to fascism!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I am fully aware of the fascism, this just seems like a bad job gluing deep conspiratorial conjecture onto an event without much meat on it beyond "trust me brah".

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    A bad job gluing is quite right. That's why it seems off. Because it's such a fucking shit job.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    Look, man, I am as conspiratorial as they come. It's all a big fucking conspiracy. Literally. People literally hide in dimly lit rooms on private islands and come up with ways to enrich and empower themselves at the expense of the planet and its population and then they shake hands, do some coke, and go rape children together.

    But I'm gonna need something more than "something smells fishy" to leap to the conclusion that Jews killed Kirk.

    There's plenty of psychos to go around, not every high profile event is a conspiracy. If they wanted a martyr they could have done way better. But ok let's say they're behind it. Then who's the kid in custody? A patsy? Someone innocent? Are they not the person seen on the videos fleeing from the roof and jumping down the building? Because that isn't exactly Mossad level training. They mind controlled him to do it? Extortion? Like, what, how do you explain that dude?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I've shoot dozens of deer with a 30.06, and they also don't explode if you hit them in the neck. The round will pass through something that soft at that range without expanding or tumbling, retaining most of its energy instead of transferring it to the target - especially if you're using an FMJ or match round that's not designed to expand.

    It's actually one of the reasons it's kinda fallen out of style for hunting. Despite its muzzle energy, it's not a particularly precise or effective as a hunting round versus a more modern cartridge. Something like a 6.5 Creedmoor will use less powder to shoot a smaller projectile more precisely and transfer more energy to the target.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The gun enthusiasts beg to differ, and have videos to prove it. There are always people to defend the establishment online, and they aren't always sincere. I am referring to you.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Dude - I am a gun enthusiast. I have over 50 of them.

    I have 3 different 30.06 rifles (Remington 700, Springfield M1903, and M1 Garand). I've killed animals with 30.06, 6.5 Creedmoor, .308, 44 mag, 7.62.54R, .270, .223, 9mm, .357 magnum, 10mm, 12-gauge, 20-gauge, .22 rimfire, and more. I know a thing or 2 about this shit.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    He doesn't care about legacy. A perfect hedonistic nihilist.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    He cares very much about his legacy. That's part of why he's trying to get his name on a bunch of stuff, build out monuments, and host celebrations. However, he thinks he's more popular than he actually is, and doesn't understand how anyone could not like him which leads to him thinking the legacy he is trying to manufacture is genuine and going to last.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    does he not understand that if he can rename them after himself, someone else can rename them again just as easily?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    He may realize he's putting so many horrible things in motion that the naming issue probably won't be seen as the highest priority

    Edit: lol what a weird thing to downvote

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I believe that his name on things is a plan to collect royalty payments.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    His name on his towers and resorts, yeah. I was more referring to renaming the "John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" or the creation of the Trump Gold Card, F-47, Trump Class battleship, Trump Institute for Peace, Trump Ballroom, Arc de Trump, or the renaming of various roads and an airport (attempted: ongoing).

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    That's a random theory. It seems clear to me that every action trump takes, he does so with people talking about him in mind and he revels in it whether they are saying good or bad things about him.

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  • [–] 98 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    As if this was a novel thing... He did the same thing when Rob Reiner was murdered.

    The orange pedo is an absolute psychopath and he doesn't even try to hide it anymore - probably the disinhibition caused by his dementia.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    He is a child rapist and genocidal warmongering mass murderer. Gloating over one death is a drop in an ocean of toxic waste.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I can't think of a single redeeming feature of Trump. He is possibly the worst person on the planet.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    God damn! They condemned him! That's serious, right?

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This just in: Child rapist is a shitty person.

    But how about that Dow guys, why aren't we paying attention to what really matters?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    But how about that Dow guys

    Bomb falling sound

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Bomb falling sound

    Sorry I can't hear you over all the munitions they're suddenly dropping on various countries we weren't at war with. I think they asked how is the Dow????

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I beleive that there will be world wide celebration when Trump dies, no matter when, no matter how. That will be a good day.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm afraid there will be so many crocodile tears "thoughts and prayers" tweets about his death

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    As a Canadian I refuse to ever step foot in the USA again because of what Turmp has done and watching the American people celebrate it.

    That said, I will gladly take a day to visit just so I can leave a steaming log of shit on his grave.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    Day by day, word by word, action by action, confirms that he is the bloated corrupt personification of everything that is wrong with us.

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  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The day Trump dies, I'm celebrating. I plan to treat it like a national holiday every year...with fireworks if I can help it.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "Trump does some bullshit, many people upset, he remains unimpeached." Just another day ending in -y.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago

    Trump: “Mueller’s report completely exonerated me.”

    Also Trump: “I’m glad Mueller is dead.”

    And people somehow think this lines up.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    "He can no longer hurt innocent people"
    How that disgusting, child raping, schoolgirl bombing, ShitGoblin can say that is just astonishing. Fucks sake.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    Breaking news! This just in. Trump is a hypocrite.

    It's kind of weird people keep pointing this out, like eventually the people onboard the hypocrisy are suddenly going to change their ways. They aren't. They support trump because they wish they could get away with the shit he gets away with everyday. And they love him for it.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Hey Donald... Tick Tock

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Why are people surprised? The World's Foremost Pedofile called Trump The Worst Person He'd Ever Known

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    "Innocent people" is a weird way to spell "pedophile", but knowing that a lot of pedophile activists are gaslighting themselves into believing that children can consent and they want it...

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    But Charlie Kirk...something something

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    There's never a fucking day spared for which that bastard likes to create horrors for even billions of people.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Raise your hand if this is in any way surprising to you.

    Any hands? No?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    The fall of Western Civ

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Yes, well, Trump is a cunt.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    They guy is best known for military service and leading an investigation of another nation manipulating the US election process. Pretty goddamm patriotic stuff. If you are the president of a bookstore, ya gotta pretend to like books even if you can't read, get a clue dumbass.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    "opprobrium"... an element in the periodic table? Right next to copium I suppose?

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