Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly addressed President Donald Trump’s reaction to the death of Robert Mueller, the former special counsel who oversaw the 2016 investigation into Russian election interference, in a Monday column on his website that predictably defends Trump’s perspective.
“The death of former FBI chief Robert Mueller at 81 stimulated President Trump to say, ‘I’m glad he’s dead, he can no longer hurt innocent people,’” O’Reilly wrote to start off his “Message of the Day” column. “Tough analysis, no question.”
Mueller died Friday at the age of 81, and while many people on both sides of the aisle 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!” He was skewered over what many called a “disgusting” and “insane” post.
Though O’Reilly called it a “tough analysis” in his column, he also defended Trump’s viewpoint and took a swipe at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while doing it.
“By all accounts, Mueller’s staff put the Trump family through hell and then, in the final report that exonerated the Trumps, failed to spell out the incredible dishonesty of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and FBI chief James Comey,” he wrote. A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee later concluded that Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election took place to Trump’s apparent benefit.
