MS NOW Justice and Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian ripped President Donald Trump for avoiding navy service following the dying of former particular counsel and Vietnam Conflict veteran Robert Mueller.
“In an period when many younger males—together with President Trump—had been making an attempt to keep away from serving in Vietnam, Mueller not solely volunteered for the Marines after graduating from Princeton—he spent a 12 months ready for an injured knee to heal so he might serve,” Dilanian wrote on X. “I’ve all the time discovered that be probably the most compelling truth about him.”
The president prevented navy service in Vietnam by claiming he had “bone spurs” on his heels. He additionally joked to radio host Howard Stern in 1997 concerning the hazard of contracting sexually transmitted ailments from ladies he was sleeping with as his personal “private Vietnam.”
The correspondent’s feedback got here after his community broke the information that Mueller had died Friday on the age of 81.
No reason behind dying was confirmed, however the former particular counsel who oversaw the investigation into Russian interference within the 2016 election had been identified with Parkinson’s illness.
“With deep unhappiness, we’re sharing the information that Bob handed away,” his household stated in a press release to the Related Press on Saturday. “His household asks that their privateness be revered.”
Trump reacted to Mueller’s dying by telling followers on Reality Social, “Good, I’m glad he’s useless. He can now not harm harmless folks!”