Scott Bessent says people should have 'empathy' for Trump after president celebrated Robert Mueller's death

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 22 March 2026 14:34 EDT


Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Donald Trump for celebrating Robert Mueller’s death, saying the president deserved “empathy” because he and his family had “been through” a lot because of various investigations.

When asked whether the president’s Truth Social post saying “Good, I’m glad he’s dead” was appropriate, Bessent argued nobody could understand what Trump had been through.

“I think that given what has been done to President Trump and his family, it is impossible for either of us to understand what he has been through,” Bessent told Kristen Welker on Meet the Press Sunday.

“I think that we should have a little empathy for what has been done to him and his family,” Bessent added, referring to the 2022 raid on the Trumps’ residence at Mar-a-Lago, which Mueller was not part of. Bessent refused to say whether the president of the United States should celebrate the death of any American.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/scott-bessent-trump-robert-mueller-b2943437.html

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45 was up in NYC during that search and seizure on August 8, 2022.

And for what?

His company's BUSINESS FRAUD testimony was scheduled for August 10th, 2022.

This yet another "jump the shark" moment. I will provide the below for emphasis -

[Lovie777]

1. True RWer.................

never can tell the truth.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

14. To borrow from Junior Soprano,

Bessent is so far up TSF’s ass that Trump can taste Brylcreem. Someone should have told Bessent that Trump and his family brought these investigations upon themselves with their unethical and criminal conduct.

[Deuxcents]

2. Here's my empathy..🖕

[chowder66]

3. The Republican Party doesn't do empathy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It's a cult, beyond anything the US has seen before

Comparable cults:
Mao
Stalin
Hitler
Hirohito
Henry VIII

[underpants]

6. So he's all knowing all powerful AND the victim here?

🖕

[Resistance1]

7. What has been done to him and his family?!?!

Da fuck? He did it to himself and his family!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. No one should feel any empathy for trump on this issue

LEFT: 1960s Robert Mueller, a wounded and highly decorated soldier in Vietnam.

RIGHT: 1960s Donald Trump, a draft dodger at reform school, not athletic enough to make the team so picking up jock straps as “staff.”

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-03-21T19:28:00.904Z

[steelyboo]

9. Poor Widdle Donnie!! How does that old song go? "Nobody knows the trouble I've caused! Everyone knows I'm an asshole!"

That's the Rapist Remix of it I think.

[moniss]

10. Bessent is the

most smug a**hole I can recall.

[SeattleVet]

11. We'll be sure to exhibit as much empathy when he finally drops.

The music and dancing in the street will be epic.

[Ilikepurple]

12. Every time a read a quote from Scott Bessent I forget what the Treasury Secretary's job is.

It’s so odd that the media doesn’t key in on this administration’s habit of everybody covering for everybody else regardless of their official position. It’s like they are resigned to the fact that our entire government is the President’s, or at least Trump’s, play thing and not only is that okay, it’s also totally normal.

[Tasmanian Devil]

13. I do have empathy for Trump

The demented, mentally ill and cognitively impaired can be pitied. I've run out of outrage for whatever he does on a daily basis.

But I have no empathy for the GOP and maggots that keep such a dangerous deluded felon in power. Would any of us
really be shocked to wake up tomorrow to news that he's invaded Cuba, or invaded Greenland, or nuked Teheran, or
pranced around naked on the White House lawn?

We should just refer to him as Mad King Donald and insist he be removed from office now. At some point even the GOP will
realize they can't be on the same page as this insane sick fuck.

[CBHagman]

18. Ow! What an image!

Would any of us really be shocked to wake up tomorrow to news that he's invaded Cuba, or invaded Greenland, or nuked Teheran, or
pranced around naked on the White House lawn?

I certainly wouldn't, but I would need to have my eyeballs disinfected.

[Tasmanian Devil]

21. Recovery

I'm afraid that recovering from this disaster (Trump in power) is going to take a lot more than some eye bleach. The damage they have done is really incalculable. And all under the "MAGA" brand and as self-proclaimed "patriots" ... what a bad joke.

[kimbutgar]

15. That is the stupiest thing I have have heard today

Scott’s nose must be really brown today after he stuck it up the 😡🐖💩’s a$$ to stay in his good graces!

[GreenWave]

16. Trump spoke like the true devil he is.

[Aussie105]

17. Sympathy for the Devil?

Umm, no!

Empathy in all its forms is and has always been sadly lacking from the American Way of Life.
At least, at the top job level.

[live love laugh]

19. First Duffy now Bessent in chorus drumming up sympathy. And no journalistic pushback.

Because what the fuck has he been through?

[raising2moredems]

20. A bit F-U from me

And I intend to quote those very words when the orange pox dies (hopefully sooner than later). A class ass is all I can say.

[fujiyamasan]

22. What was it their martyred lord and savior said about empathy?

“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage"

[gohuskies]

23. Only word to Bessent is BULLS*iT!

NT

[Grumpy Old Guy]

24. His grandchildren will piss on his grave.

He is bringing shame to their family name.

[joshdawg]

25. Hey, bessent, go French kiss trump's ass.

He's missing that warm squiggly thing in his asshole.

[TearsOfDaClowned]

26. A TREASURY OFFICIAL This Empathetic About Shirking Accountability?

[mdbl]

27. It was hard for him to hear you since it's always stuck there.

[mwb970]

28. That headline made me laugh out loud at significant length. "Empathy" for trump! Good God.

[oasis]

29. Scott "Beso".

😘

[Ray Bruns]

30. Scott Bessent can go fuck himself. So can Donald Trump.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. MaddowBlog-By celebrating Mueller's death, Trump steps on lazy lies he's apparently forgotten

If Mueller “exonerated” him, and his findings “could not have been better” for the president, why is Trump celebrating Mueller’s death?

Remember in 2019, when Trump falsely told the public that Mueller “exonerated” him, and the special counsel’s findings “could not have been better”?

Trump’s celebration of Mueller’s passing suggests he’s forgotten his own lazy lies.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-23T12:04:38.088Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/by-celebrating-muellers-death-trump-steps-on-lazy-lies-hes-apparently-forgotten

In modern American life, the list of officials and political figures who have enjoy broad and bipartisan support is vanishingly small, but Robert Mueller was on it. Journalist Garrett Graff summarized, “Bob Mueller might have been the last person in the US government that both parties agreed upon and respected beyond reproach.”....

Donald Trump, however, didn’t quite see it that way. After Mueller died on Friday at age 81, the incumbent American president responded in a uniquely Trumpian fashion.....

The written statement was jarring to the extent that it offered a fresh reminder about Trump’s indecency, classlessness and fundamentally twisted character, though it was not too surprising. After all, the president’s ugly public reaction to filmmaker Rob Reiner’s death three months earlier removed any lingering doubts about Trump’s capacity for crude offensiveness.

What’s more, the Republican incumbent has a political incentive to continue his assault on the former special counsel’s findings: Mueller and his report made it unambiguously clear that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election in 2016, specifically because of the Kremlin’s desire to help elevate Trump to the White House. Mueller similarly found that Trump’s political operation was aware of Russia’s interference, expected to benefit from it and took a series of deliberate steps to obstruct the federal investigation into the scandal......

While these details were largely forgotten, in March 2019, Trump agreed that Mueller served “honorably” as the special counsel, and soon after, the president told reporters, referring to a document he clearly had not read, “The Mueller report was great. It could not have been better.”

Six years ago this week, the Republican published a tweet in which he said the Mueller report had led to his “total EXONERATION.”

He was clearly and unambiguously lying, but the point at the time was simple: Trump hoped to convince Americans that Mueller had delivered a victory for the president and his political operation.

Six years later, the question for the White House is simple. If Mueller “exonerated” Trump, and Mueller’s findings “could not have been better” for the president, why is Trump celebrating Mueller’s death?

I did not post trump's actual attack on Robert Mueller. That attack has been posted on a number of threads. trump obviously lied about the Mueller report exonerating him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

32. Bessent excuses Trump's ugly Mueller remarks because the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago

Special Counsel Mueller had NOTHING to do with the raid on Mar-a-Lago. This raid happened after the Mueller report had come out. Robert Mueller had nothing to do with the FBI retrieval of the stolen documents

Bessent excuses Trump's ugly Mueller remarks because the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-23T11:45:55.653Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mueller

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asserted on NBC on Sunday morning that those who were offended by Donald Trump’s universally reviled Truth Social post about the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, should approach the controversy from the president’s point of view.

“Meet the Press” host Kristin Welker kicked off the conversation by reading Trump’s posts where he wrote, “Robert Mueller just died. Good. I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people,” and then pressed, "Do you think it’s appropriate for the president of the United States to celebrate the death of an American citizen; someone who’s a Bronze Star, Purple Heart Kristen and who served in Vietnam?”

The nonplussed Bessent replied, ”Kristen, I was with the president in the green room at Davos and there was a video playing of what may have been an illegal raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago,” and then recalled, “They are going through his wife’s wardrobe. And I watched the look in his eye, and I think that neither one of us can understand what has been done to the president and to his family.”

Welker was quick to point out that Mueller had nothing to do with the court-approved raid looking for stolen government documents stored about the Florida resort, including in a bathroom.

Bessent, as he is known to do, cut off the host, and talked over her, asserting, “I think that given what has been done to President Trump and his family, it is impossible for either of us to understand what he has been through.”