The treasury secretary didn't seem one bit bothered by Trump's callous reaction to former FBI director Robert Mueller's death.
Kelby Vera at HuffPost:
Secretary of the Treasury Department Scott Bessent was happy to defend President Donald Trump’s reaction to former FBI director Robert Mueller’s death this weekend.
Celebrating news of Mueller’s death in a Saturday post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
The president’s grudge against Mueller goes back to his time as special prosecutor overseeing the investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian operatives.
Bessent was on the same page when asked about Trump’s sentiment during Sunday’s episode on “Meet the Press.”
“Do you think it’s appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of a Bronze Star, Purple Heart recipient who served in Vietnam?” asked host Kristen Welker.
“Neither one of us can understand what has been done to the president and his family,” Bessent replied.
Shame on you, Scott Bessent, for excusing Donald Trump's heinously offensive comment praising the death of the late Robert Mueller.
From the 03.22.2026 edition of NBC's Meet The Press:
Attorney General William P. Barr has released the full, redacted report detailing Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
...Mr. Mueller’s letter revealed deep concern about how Mr. Barr handled the initial release of the special counsel’s findings — which Mr. Mueller said created “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.”
“This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the department appointed the special counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations,” Mr. Mueller wrote.
Though it’s largely already been forgotten, 2024 was not a completely peaceful election. Anonymous terrorists, probably working for Russia, sent bomb threats to numerous majority Black and Native American polling places in battleground states in an effort to disrupt voting and aid the Trump campaign.
The threats were widely reported on Election Day itself. However, in the aftermath of Trump’s narrow but definitive win, there has been little discussion of these egregious, deliberate attacks on democracy in general, and on the voting rights of Black and Native American people in particular. Analysts have instead focused on whether the Democrats and Kamala Harris should have run further to the left or further to the right or further in some other direction.
The bomb threats did not change the election outcome, so it’s perhaps understandable that they have not been a focus of the collective, apparently endless post-election autopsy. But the lack of interest in an egregious assault on American democracy is a mistake. The attacks demonstrate how fragile our democracy is. And they provide a blueprint for the MAGA regime to tamper in elections in the future.
The fact that incoming president Donald Trump can and probably would try to block investigations into Russia’s involvement — and into the Trump campaign’s potential involvement as well — is chilling. If we want to prevent attacks like this in the future, it’s important not to instantly memory hole the attack that just happened.
A coordinated attack on democracy, and on Democrats
The hoax bomb threats on Election Day were sent to polling locations in the swing states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona. The FBI said that many of the threats “appear[ed] to originate from Russian email domains.”
None of the threats were credible, and no bombs were found. However, the threats did cause disruptions in Georgia, where five polling places were evacuated. Hours were extended at those locations to ensure all voters could cast their ballots.
Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State best known for refusing to aid Trump in his coup attempt in 2020, argued that Russia was attempting to undermine faith in the US system of government.
The Russians are “up to mischief it seems,” he said. “They don’t want us to have a smooth, fair and accurate election.”
This is probably true, as far as it goes. But it seems important to note that the bomb threats weren’t just randomly distributed attempts to undermine the electoral process. Like threats of violence in the 2020 election, they were intended specifically to target and discourage Democratic voters in key swing states.
Polls heading into November 5 indicated the election would be extremely close, so whoever was behind the threats had good reason to believe that even minor disruptions in Democratic leaning areas could tip the balance and hand Trump a win in a tight race. In the event, Trump’s win was large enough, and the disruptions small enough, that they didn’t change the outcome. But the pattern of interference nonetheless makes it clear which side was being targeted.
Fulton County, Georgia, a Democratic stronghold with a 43.7 percent plurality of Black voters, received 32 bomb threats by email and phone. Neighboring DeKalb county (53.7 percent Black) was also targeted for threats. Police had to sweep six polling locations.
Similarly, bomb threats in Pennsylvania were directed at polling locations in Democratic majority city Philadelphia. In Wisconsin, Madison was targeted; in Michigan, Detroit.
In Arizona, polling locations on the lands of the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe were both threatened. Native voters tend to favor Democrats (as they did this year, despite some misleading early exit polls).
Russia helps Trump because Trump helps Russia
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Putin would attempt to help Trump. Russian election interference globally has been designed to advance the far right and boost candidates friendly to Russia’s authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin.
Putin has been doling out money to boost and buy the allegiance of far right candidates across Europe, focusing especially on getting Europe to abandon Ukraine, which Russia invaded in 2022. His interference in Romania’s recent election on behalf of far right candidate Călin Georgescu was so egregious that the Romanian Constitutional Court invalidated the election results.
And of course Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election, waging a sweeping electoral interference campaign. Russian intelligence hacked the Democratic National Committee network, stealing and releasing private emails, which drove news cycles throughout the campaign and boosted Trump, who won the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote. (Trump continues to deny there was any election interference, because of course he does.)
According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which was launched after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey amid a probe of his campaign’s connections with the Kremlin, Russia attempted to hack the DNC shortly after Trump publicly urged Putin to expose and disseminate Hillary Clinton’s emails.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” Trump said, live on television.
A Senate investigation found numerous links between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016. And Putin tried again to help Trump (unsuccessfully) in 2020. In return, Trump has consistently and successfully undermined support for Ukraine within the GOP while legitimizing Putin as a global player.
Trump’s link to Russia were not fully investigated or prosecuted after 2016 because Trump, with the power of the presidency behind him, did everything he could to delegitimize and block the investigation in ways that may well have constituted obstruction of justice. He was aided in that by a Republican Party dead set against any suggestion that the 2016 election victory that allowed them to stack the Supreme Court and cut taxes for billionaires was in any way compromised.
Bill Barr, Trump’s attorney general (who has subsequently become a Trump critic), downplayed and mischaracterized Mueller’s report about Russian interference, creating a narrative that helped the right to dismiss the findings. Supposedly moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins refused to even consider impeachment on the basis of Trump’s links to Russia.
This is, to put it mildly, an ominous precedent for investigation of, and accountability for, Russian bomb threats during 2024. Raffensperger (again, a Trump critic) wouldn’t even acknowledge that the threats were intended to help Trump.
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Putin, Trump, and Republicans have learned that potentially violent election interference targeting Democratic voters is fine as long as you win. If they aren’t made to pay some sort of price, why wouldn’t they do it again?
Bomb threats at swing state polling places on Election Day were a Russian campaign to intimidate potential Kamala Harris supporters.
The president celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into Trump and his associates over Russian interference in t
Asawin Suebsaeng at Zeteo:
On Saturday afternoon, President Donald Trump took a break from weighing a ground invasion of Iran, so that he could dance on the grave of former FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” he wrote on his social media site, before signing his post, “President DONALD J. TRUMP,” so that nobody could be confused about the official nature of the proclamation. One of the White House’s verified Twitter accounts dutifully shared Trump’s post.
Trump and the GOP have been furious with the late special counsel, who was a registered Republican, ever since the president’s first term, when Mueller led the federal investigation into Trump and his associates over Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
Zeteo emailed the White House to ask whether it would be appropriate for other politicians to react this way if they were to hear news of Trump’s passing. (We all know how the Trump-Vance administration responded after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.)
Trashy scumbag Orange Pedo occupant of the White House spits on the late Robert Mueller’s grave with his tasteless “I’m glad he’s dead” reaction.
See Also:
Raw Story: ‘I’m glad he’s dead’: Trump cheers Robert Mueller’s passing with tone-deaf message
HuffPost: Trump On Robert Mueller's Death: 'Good, I'm Glad He's Dead.'
Mueller, who oversaw the probe into the Trump 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was 81. Trump responded, saying, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”
Carol Leonnig, Clarissa-Jan Lim, and Ken Dilanian at MS NOW:
Robert Mueller, the former FBI director for more than a decade who later served as special counsel in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, died on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. He was 81.
The cause of death was not immediately known, but Mueller had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for years, the people said.
Mueller, whose two-year probe concluded in 2019 that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election of Donald Trump, served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013. The Justice Department in 2017 appointed him special counsel to oversee the growing investigation after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
The Mueller probe became an obsessive subject for Trump, who repeatedly — as many as hundreds of times — called Mueller’s investigation a “witch hunt,” “a scam” and a “hoax.”
Upon hearing of Mueller’s death on Saturday, the president wrote in a Truth Social post: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
The president’s comment was immediately condemned by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who had vigorously pursued allegations of Trump’s ties to Russia while he served on the House Intelligence Committee.
Mueller’s investigation resulted in 37 indictments and seven guilty pleas, though he found no evidence that Trump or his aides coordinated with Russia. The Mueller report, as it came to be known, did not conclude that Trump committed any crime, but it also did not clear the president of obstruction of justice.
The investigation made Mueller a prime Trump target. For years, the president lobbed insults and sought to undermine Mueller’s credibility while claiming a “deep state” conspiracy against him.
Former FBI Director and Trump-Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller passed away at 81. RIP to this American patriot.
See Also:
USA Today: Robert Mueller, former FBI director who investigated Trump, dead at 81
HuffPost: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Dies At Age 81
Subpoenas fly, media swarms—but behind the scenes, Comer’s real job is to protect Trump and rewrite history.
Lev Parnas at Parnas Rememebers:
As I sit here watching the breaking news unfold—seeing the headlines spin, watching the media and the pundits chase the new bait dropped by James Comer and the House Oversight Committee—I know exactly what’s happening. Because I’ve seen this playbook before. Because I’ve lived it.
And I want to be very clear: this is a setup.
While the press paints this as Republicans finally turning on Trump, or framing it as the GOP seeking accountability, my sources tell me something very different. After a long private conversation between Donald Trump and Congressman James Comer, a calculated two-part plan was set into motion. The first part? Flood the media with noise—reviving the so-called “Russia hoax” by dragging out old names like the Clintons and staging dramatic testimony to dominate headlines and distract the public.
The second part is more dangerous: Comer would use his subpoena power to selectively request Epstein files—not to expose the truth, but to shape it. The goal is to rewrite the Epstein narrative in real time, erasing Trump’s involvement, shifting the blame, and controlling what the public sees before the full truth can emerge. And now, Comer—who has subpoena power as Chair of the House Oversight Committee—is executing that plan like a loyal soldier.
He’s not just throwing out subpoenas. He’s rewriting history.
Just like he did with the sham impeachment of President Joe Biden—where he spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars pushing Russian disinformation—I know, because I testified. I was there. I exposed it. I shut it down.
Today, Comer dropped a wave of subpoenas tied to the so-called “Russia hoax” investigation—another coordinated distraction designed to stir chaos and recycle discredited narratives. This is part of the new grand jury effort quietly opened by Pam Bondi, aimed not at uncovering truth, but at muddying the waters and reviving Trump’s favorite lie: that he was the victim of a deep state conspiracy.
Separately, Comer also sent a formal subpoena request letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking for selective documentation from the Epstein files. Not all of them—just the targeted pieces they need to construct a new version of events. It’s not about transparency. It’s not about justice. It’s about narrative control. They’re not seeking the full truth—they’re cherry-picking fragments to rewrite history and scrub Trump’s name from the record.
And that’s the point. This isn’t about justice. It’s about narrative control.
House Oversight Committee James Comer (R-KY) launches a series of subpoenas regarding the Epstein Files by including folks from previous administrations (Bush 43, Obama, Trump I, and Biden) while ignoring obvious MAGA charlatans such as Alex Acosta.
See Also:
The Guardian: US House panel subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton for Epstein testimony
HuffPost: House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Bill Clinton, Justice Department For Epstein Files
Rep. James Comer, who heads the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and loves nothing better than opening sham investigations into osten
Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:
Rep. James Comer, who heads the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and loves nothing better than opening sham investigations into ostensible Democratic malfeasance, is suddenly not all that into the whole “oversight” thing. Why not? Because now it involves President Donald Trump’s relationship with his onetime buddy and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and who wants to investigate that, right?
Comer went on CNN on Tuesday to say that he has no interest in investigating Trump’s Epstein connection. And he has several reasons, none of which are remotely valid excuses for not looking into the sitting president’s extremely cozy relationship with a man notoriously accused of being a human trafficker and pedophile.
First, Comer can’t investigate this because it all happened too long ago, and “I don’t think the Oversight Committee is going to invest in looking up something that was 22 years ago.” So much for a promise to seek justice for the victims, as apparently Comer’s interest has a date cutoff that he just made up.
Next, since Trump claims he didn’t sign the lewd letter that appears in Epstein’s repulsive 50th birthday book, that’s good enough for Comer.
“The president says he did not sign it. So I take the president [at] his word,” he said.
Huh. Who knew that all one had to do to dodge a Comer investigation was just to say you didn’t do it? Oh wait. Trump is apparently the only person Comer takes at his word. Everyone else targeted by one of Comer’s unhinged, conspiracy-fueled “investigations” does not receive that special treatment.
No amount of explaining that the use of an autopen is perfectly fine and legal, for example, has stopped Comer’s harassment of former President Joe Biden and his staff, because, per Comer, Biden’s use of an autopen is “the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.”
The problem for Comer is that he was exceedingly hyped to investigate the Epstein matter when he thought he could pin the whole thing on Democrats. In August, he subpoenaed a raft of people, demanding they appear before his committee to answer questions about Epstein. He dropped subpoenas on Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as former FBI Director James Comey and onetime special counsel Robert Mueller, which looks a lot more like a list of Democrats Trump and Comer hate than a logical choice for an Epstein investigation.
House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY)’s partisan sham investigation show continues, as he is ignoring Donald Trump’s role in the Epstein Files.
