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Elderly Trump Critics Await Mueller's Report — Sometimes Until Their Last Breath

Mitchell Tendler was a 93-year-old WWII vet who died recently. According to his son, one of his last statements was about the special counsel: "'I'm not going to see the Mueller report, am I?'"
Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller (center) leaves after a closed meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 21, 2017, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Expectations among Democrats are sky-high as reports have emerged about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation coming to an end.

In fact, expectations are so intense among some elderly, ill critics of the president that they say they want to try to hang on to see how the story all turns out.

As a World War II veteran, Mitchell Tendler had been part of the forces that

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