MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday torched President Donald Trump over his reaction to the death of Robert Mueller, the former special counsel who oversaw the 2016 inquiry into Russian election interference, as “more despicable” than one former president.
The “Last Word” host argued Trump could have paid more attention when former President Richard Nixon, who infamously resigned in disgrace in 1974 after then-special prosecutor Leon Jaworski successfully investigated his Watergate scandal, died in 1982.
“Donald Trump was there for all of that,” O’Donnell said Monday. “But because Donald Trump is not educable, he learned nothing from Richard Nixon’s reaction to the death of his special prosecutor. The special prosecutor who completely destroyed Richard Nixon’s life.”
He added, “And so historians have yet another marker to prove which of these two human beings was worse: Richard Nixon or Donald Trump. Aside from judging them as presidents, historians will have no difficulty judging which one was the more despicable human being.”
Mueller died Friday at the age of 81, and while most lawmakers and political pundits shared their thoughts respectfully, Trump wrote Saturday on his Truth Social platform, “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
