Keri Johnson

Both Republicans and Democrats thought he was like the epitome of law enforcement.

And earlier in his life, he had been a war hero in Vietnam.

He earned

The Bronze Star, he earned a Purple Heart Medal.

He basically had been very highly respected, so much so that upon his passing, President Obama called him one of the most respected public servants of our time.

And President George W. Bush talked about, you know, how he had handled every tough assignment the country threw at him.

Well, really, because Mueller uncovered a lot of evidence in Russia's interference in the 2016 election, and Donald Trump never got over that.

Let's talk about what Mueller found, because it's been so mischaracterized over the years that I think it's important to just do a top line of his findings.

He and his investigators wound up indicting 37 people and entities.

including several people tied to Trump's campaign, like the campaign chair Paul Manafort and the former national security advisor Michael Flynn.

Mueller's investigators found Russia interfered in that election in 2016 in a sweeping and systematic way.

He found numerous links between the campaign and Russia, although not enough evidence to charge a criminal conspiracy to that end.

Remember, it's been a long time, but there was evidence that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, passed along polling data to a person the FBI and the intelligence community called a political operative for Russia.

And several Trump advisers lied to investigators about their contacts with Russia.

including Michael Flynn.

And interestingly enough, just in the last few days after Mueller's death, Michael Flynn obtained a settlement from the U.S.

government.

Flynn said that he was maliciously prosecuted and the U.S.

government is now going to pay him more than $1 million.

You know, one of the most controversial decisions he made was to not make a judgment about whether Trump himself had broken the law.