Overview
- Navarro on ABC’s The View, which aired Monday, said people would cheer when President Trump dies after he praised Robert Mueller’s death on Truth Social.
- Trump had posted that he was glad Mueller was dead and wrote that Mueller could no longer hurt innocent people.
- Cohosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin urged empathy and called for basic decency when public figures die.
- Navarro said few Republicans had condemned Trump and she cited Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for urging empathy for Trump.
- Coverage split along partisan lines, with HuffPost noting Mueller was 81 with a Parkinson’s diagnosis and military honors while Breitbart, the Daily Wire, and Newsbusters accused The View of hypocrisy.