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.

[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.