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

— from National Public Radio —

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 fought Nazism.

And he lived through many historical milestones of the 20th century: the Korean War, then Vietnam, Watergate and the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

And, in recent years, he was watching the current presidency with something bordering on obsession. Then, on Dec. 29, at the age of 93, he began feeling pain in his legs.

“I got a call at 11 o’clock. My mom said, ‘Well, Dad’s not feeling well — he really can’t stand.’ ” recounted Tendler’s son Walter, who lives in San Diego. “Within a couple of hours they called 911 and got him into the ER because it wasn’t getting any better.”

Mitchell Tendler began to fade. He had outlived two implantable defibrillators and was on his third. The devices had kept him alive but now posed a problem for the medical imaging he needed in the hospital. Doctors gave him some painkillers, and then he had a final thought.

“It just was quiet for a little while,” Walter Tendler recounted, “and then he just sits up in bed halfway and looks at me and he goes, ‘S***, I’m not going to see the Mueller report, am I?’ And that was really the last coherent thing that he said.”