Laura Hollis began her March 27 WorldNetDaily column this way:
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller died on March 20. This is what former President Barack Obama said in a post on X:
“Bob Mueller was one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau after 9/11 and saving countless lives. But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time.”
Here’s what President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social and X:
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
Well, that’s certainly a contrast in tone.
Predictably, plenty of people are aghast at Trump’s characteristically blunt statement.
Hollis then sought to justify Trump’s nastiness:
Trump’s comment was tasteless and unbecoming. But was he just being petty? Let’s recall some recent history …
Trump was falsely accused of “colluding” with Russia leading up to the 2016 presidential election, and all the machinery of the federal government was thrown at him. That accusation was fabricated by his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton’s campaign – and Clinton herself was in on the plan. Emails obtained in later investigations prove that Obama also knew about the false accusations and their use in the weaponization of the FBI against Trump.
[…]Mueller was tasked with spearheading the investigation into Trump’s “collusion” with Russia, an investigation that took two years and cost taxpayers at least $32 million. And yet, despite having a crack team of what were called “the best prosecutors in the business” working around the clock, as well as God only knows how much information produced in response to 2,800 subpoenas and 500 search warrants, they could not prove that Trump had colluded with Russia.
Because, of course, he hadn’t colluded with Russia. And they all knew it.
Actually, Mueller’s investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the [2016] Trump Campaign and established that the Trump campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks’s releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage” Hillary Clinton. Further, Mueller identified several episodes in which Trump obstructed him — behavior he would presumably not have engaged in if he was an innocent man.
Still, Hollis has a narrative to push, and she clung to it:
The damage done by the false accusations made against Trump is still being felt to this day. Mueller was many things, some of them praiseworthy. But in the last chapter of his professional life, he did not display a “relentless commitment to the rule of law,” nor was his behavior an example of America’s “bedrock values.” Obama’s silver-tongued tribute was not so much a defense of Mueller as it was a cover for his own role in the travesty that was “Crossfire Hurricane.”
If Trump’s signature style is brusque and rude, Obama’s is smooth, glib – and deceitful. Just three days after he praised Mueller on social media, Obama posted on X proclaiming that the day the Affordable Care Act passed was “one of (his) proudest moments as president.”
There couldn’t be a better example of Obama’s penchant for self-serving deceit. In the months leading up to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (colloquially called “Obamacare”), he lied with impunity, over and over again, assuring Americans that they could keep their plans, keep their doctors and that their premiums would go down. None of that was true, and Obama knew it. So did his advisers, like Jonathan Gruber, who was notoriously caught on camera bragging that “lack of transparency” and the stupidity of the American public was instrumental in the passage of Obamacare.
Hollis concluded:
In a perfect world, our politicians would be both polite and truthful. But we don’t live in a perfect world. And if our choice is between someone who is rude and truthful or smooth and deceitful, I’ll take rude and truthful every time.
In fact, it appears that Trump managed to be both rude and deceitful. Too bad Hollis is too much of a Trump sycophant to recognize that.