President Trump sank lower than low, even by his standards, after he learned on Saturday that former special prosecutor Robert Mueller had died.

“Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “He can no longer hurt innocent people!”

Much of Trump’s rancor no doubt stems from Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. The probe led to indictments against 34 individuals, but not Trump himself.

Trump declared himself exonerated.

But, as he now strives in his second term to play a wartime commander-in-chief, Trump cannot escape a stain from a past collusion: this with a Queens podiatrist. Trump remains a draft dodger. And he has not likely forgotten comparisons that had been made between himself and Mueller, who not only enlisted but also overcame what initially kept him from serving.

When Donald Trump secured his infamous bone spur draft deferment in September of 1968, Robert Mueller had spent a year waiting for a sports-related knee injury to heal so he could be cleared for combat duty with the Marine Corps.

That November, 24-year-old Mueller arrived in Vietnam and became a platoon leader in “The Magnificent Bastards,” Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment. He had been there a month when his platoon became embroiled in an eight-hour battle.

“2nd Lt. Mueller fearlessly moved from one position to another, directing the accurate counterfire of his men and shouting words of encouragement to them,” the citation for his Bronze Star medal with a V for valor reads.

In April of 1969, Mueller rushed to support a squad of his Marines who were caught in an ambush. An AK-47 round tore through his right thigh, but he kept on fighting.

“Although seriously wounded during the firefight, he resolutely maintained his position and, ably directing the fire of his........

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