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Jimmy Kimmel has built an entire career on being the establishment’s court jester, so it was hardly surprising when he melted down over President Trump’s response to Robert Mueller’s death. What was revealing, though, was just how much the truth still stings for the left’s favorite late-night attack dog. As Trump posted on his Truth Social account, he wrote, “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”—a statement that was characteristically blunt and, as many conservatives argue based on the Mueller Report released in 2019, completely justified given Mueller’s role in the RussiaGate investigation that consumed three years of Trump’s presidency and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, according to congressional estimates.
Kimmel’s response was to call the President a “petty little bitch” during his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live, as seen in the episode aired that night. And that’s coming from the same man whose show was briefly pulled from the air last fall after making ghoulish comments about an assassination attempt on Charlie Kirk, details of which were reported by conservative outlets like Breitbart. Kimmel then tried to frame Trump’s comments as some kind of Freudian “death wish,” suggesting that when Trump said Mueller couldn’t hurt innocent people anymore, he was really talking about himself—it’s the kind of shallow analysis that passes for comedy these days, based on clips from his show that went viral on social media.
Kimmel pivoted to praising Mueller as “a decorated veteran” and “a Marine who served in Vietnam,” as noted in Mueller’s official biography from the Department of Justice, contrasted with Trump’s draft deferment that’s been documented in various news archives. But that’s the same playbook the left has run for years—wrap themselves in military service when convenient, ignore it when it suits them, even though Mueller’s service record has nothing to do with his conduct as Special Counsel, where he presided over a team of partisan lawyers who spent years hunting for crimes they never found, as outlined in the Mueller Report. The RussiaGate investigation was a sham from the start, built on a dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and promoted by Obama-era intelligence officials who knew it was garbage, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s findings in 2020.
Mueller knew there was no collusion early in his investigation but kept the circus going anyway, feeding leaks to friendly reporters and letting the narrative fester, as detailed in reports from the Justice Department’s inspector general. Innocent people like Michael Flynn had their lives destroyed, with Flynn’s own testimony in court highlighting the pressure he faced. Others faced bankruptcy defending themselves against process crimes manufactured by prosecutors with unlimited budgets and political agendas, a situation criticized in analyses from conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. So yes, Robert Mueller can no longer hurt innocent people—that’s not petty, it’s a statement of fact that millions of Americans who lived through that witch hunt understand perfectly well, as reflected in polls from Rasmussen Reports. The only people offended by Trump’s bluntness are the same ones who spent years calling him a Russian asset, a traitor, and worse, their outrage as performative as Kimmel’s comedy.
Providence watches over the bold.
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