| | | A Study In Character: Robert Mueller vs. Donald Trump
by
JakeThomas
17 hrs
Robert Mueller is the man that Trump could never be but wishes he was.
President Donald Trump cannot resist the opportunity to take a swipe at Robert Mueller, most recently attacking the former special counsel’s mental faculties during a campaign rally.
But it is not only Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference, the Trump campaign, and potential obstruction of justice that underlies Trump’s hatred for the Republican; Mueller is the man that Trump could never be but wishes he was.
Before his long-term commitment to public service in Washington, D.C., Mueller served with distinction in the Vietnam War and was a recipient of the Bronze Star with Valor, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
And his personal life has borne evidence of that same level of commitment: Mueller has been married to the same woman, Ann Cabell Standish, since 1966.
And what of Donald Trump?
President Donald Trump sat out of the Vietnam War due to a faked disability. Dr. Larry Braunstein, a podiatrist who died in 2007, reportedly told his family that he provided Trump with a fabricated diagnosis of bone spurs in order to help him avoid service.
While Mueller was serving with the U.S. Marines (and leading them), Trump claimed that he spent that era avoiding sexually transmitted infections. Trump has been married three times and has been unfaithful to all of his wives.
In 1998, Trump claimed that he should have received the Congressional Medal of Honor for dodging so many sexually transmitted infections.
Speaking with radio shock jock Howard Stern, Trump said “more people were killed by women [via sex] than killed in Vietnam, OK," referring to the danger of STDs. "I'm having a good time, but Howard, you know the one negative: It's very, very dangerous out there,” Trump said.
Stern then compared Trump’s sexual exploits to the war, and the future president joked that he was “getting the Congressional Medal of Honor, in actuality.”
As much as Trump brags of his success in the real estate business, his long history of chasing women, and his “really big brain,” in the end, the president knows that he is but a small and insecure man standing next to the likes of Robert Mueller.
And so he must attack those who reveal just how great his many shortcomings truly are — those, like Mueller, who represent the man Trump knows he could never truly be. |
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