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(170,175 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:45 PM Mar 22

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

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

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 -

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Scott Bessent says people should have 'empathy' for Trump after president celebrated Robert Mueller's death (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 22 OP

True RWer................. Lovie777 Mar 22 #1

To borrow from Junior Soprano, Prof. Toru Tanaka Mar 22 #14

Here's my empathy..🖕 Deuxcents Mar 22 #2

The Republican Party doesn't do empathy. chowder66 Mar 22 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Dave Bowman Mar 22 #4

It's a cult, beyond anything the US has seen before muriel_volestrangler Mar 22 #5

So he's all knowing all powerful AND the victim here? underpants Mar 22 #6

What has been done to him and his family?!?! Resistance1 Mar 22 #7

No one should feel any empathy for trump on this issue LetMyPeopleVote Mar 22 #8

Poor Widdle Donnie!! How does that old song go? "Nobody knows the trouble I've caused! Everyone knows I'm an asshole!" steelyboo Mar 22 #9

Bessent is the moniss Mar 22 #10

We'll be sure to exhibit as much empathy when he finally drops. SeattleVet Mar 22 #11

Every time a read a quote from Scott Bessent I forget what the Treasury Secretary's job is. Ilikepurple Mar 22 #12

I do have empathy for Trump Tasmanian Devil Mar 22 #13

Ow! What an image! CBHagman Mar 22 #18

Recovery Tasmanian Devil Mar 22 #21

That is the stupiest thing I have have heard today kimbutgar Mar 22 #15

Trump spoke like the true devil he is. GreenWave Mar 22 #16

Sympathy for the Devil? Aussie105 Mar 22 #17

First Duffy now Bessent in chorus drumming up sympathy. And no journalistic pushback. live love laugh Mar 22 #19

A bit F-U from me raising2moredems Mar 22 #20

What was it their martyred lord and savior said about empathy? fujiyamasan Mar 22 #22

Only word to Bessent is BULLS*iT! gohuskies Mar 22 #23

His grandchildren will piss on his grave. Grumpy Old Guy Mar 23 #24

Hey, bessent, go French kiss trump's ass. joshdawg Mar 23 #25

A TREASURY OFFICIAL This Empathetic About Shirking Accountability? TearsOfDaClowned Mar 23 #26

It was hard for him to hear you since it's always stuck there. mdbl Mar 23 #27

That headline made me laugh out loud at significant length. "Empathy" for trump! Good God. mwb970 Mar 23 #28

Scott "Beso". oasis Mar 23 #29

Scott Bessent can go fuck himself. So can Donald Trump. Ray Bruns Mar 23 #30

MaddowBlog-By celebrating Mueller's death, Trump steps on lazy lies he's apparently forgotten LetMyPeopleVote Mar 23 #31

Bessent excuses Trump's ugly Mueller remarks because the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago LetMyPeopleVote Mar 23 #32

Lovie777

(23,092 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:47 PM

Mar 22

never can tell the truth.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,929 posts)

14. To borrow from Junior Soprano,

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 05:21 PM

Mar 22

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

(27,077 posts)

2. Here's my empathy..🖕

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:48 PM

Mar 22

chowder66

(12,289 posts)

3. The Republican Party doesn't do empathy.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:49 PM

Mar 22

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Dave Bowman This message was self-deleted by its author.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,273 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:57 PM

Mar 22

Comparable cults:
Mao
Stalin
Hitler
Hirohito
Henry VIII

underpants

(196,660 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:58 PM

Mar 22

🖕

Resistance1

(162 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 04:18 PM

Mar 22

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

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,248 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 04:20 PM

Mar 22

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

steelyboo

(903 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 04:31 PM

Mar 22

That's the Rapist Remix of it I think.

moniss

(9,077 posts)

10. Bessent is the

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 04:32 PM

Mar 22

most smug a**hole I can recall.

SeattleVet

(5,906 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 04:51 PM

Mar 22

The music and dancing in the street will be epic.

Ilikepurple

(713 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 04:58 PM

Mar 22

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

(171 posts)

13. I do have empathy for Trump

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 05:06 PM

Mar 22

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

(17,500 posts)

18. Ow! What an image!

Reply to Tasmanian Devil (Reply #13)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:45 PM

Mar 22

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

(171 posts)

21. Recovery

Reply to CBHagman (Reply #18)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 10:59 PM

Mar 22

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

(27,292 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 05:36 PM

Mar 22

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

GreenWave

(12,659 posts)

16. Trump spoke like the true devil he is.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:11 PM

Mar 22

Aussie105

(7,966 posts)

17. Sympathy for the Devil?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:12 PM

Mar 22

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

(16,408 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 10:18 PM

Mar 22

Because what the fuck has he been through?

raising2moredems

(752 posts)

20. A bit F-U from me

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 10:24 PM

Mar 22

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

(1,783 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:49 PM

Mar 22

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

gohuskies

(1,229 posts)

23. Only word to Bessent is BULLS*iT!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:51 PM

Mar 22

Grumpy Old Guy

(4,329 posts)

24. His grandchildren will piss on his grave.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 12:10 AM

Mar 23

He is bringing shame to their family name.

joshdawg

(2,967 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 05:21 AM

Mar 23

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

TearsOfDaClowned

(59 posts)

26. A TREASURY OFFICIAL This Empathetic About Shirking Accountability?

Reply to joshdawg (Reply #25)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 05:42 AM

Mar 23

mdbl

(8,703 posts)

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

Reply to joshdawg (Reply #25)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 06:55 AM

Mar 23

mwb970

(12,153 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 07:50 AM

Mar 23

oasis

(53,736 posts)

29. Scott "Beso".

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 07:58 AM

Mar 23

😘

Ray Bruns

(6,419 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 08:03 AM

Mar 23

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,248 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:18 AM

Mar 23

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 â€œexoneratedâ€ him, and the special counselâ€™s findings â€œcould not have been betterâ€?

Trumpâ€™s celebration of Muellerâ€™s passing suggests heâ€™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

(180,248 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 08:50 PM

Mar 23

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.”

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