Overview
- President Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Robert Mueller just died. Good. I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.”
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC’s Kristen Welker that people should have “a little empathy” for Trump given what he and his family have experienced.
- Bessent cited watching a video of “what may have been an illegal raid” at Mar-a-Lago in a Davos green room, describing agents looking through the first lady’s wardrobe.
- Welker noted Mueller did not order the 2022 FBI search, which stemmed from a separate Justice Department documents probe led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, and Bessent declined to say the post was inappropriate.
- Mueller, a former FBI director and special counsel who led the 2017–2019 Russia inquiry, died at 81, and Trump’s reaction drew swift condemnation from officials and commentators.