{"id":20413,"date":"2026-03-23T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bessent-responds-to-trumps-post-about-muellers-death\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:22:08","slug":"bessent-responds-to-trumps-post-about-muellers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bessent-responds-to-trumps-post-about-muellers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent responds to Trump&#8217;s post about Mueller\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said people need to give President Trump more &ldquo;empathy&rdquo; after Trump posted that he was &ldquo;glad&rdquo; former FBI Director Robert Mueller was dead. &ldquo;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&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5795894-bessent-trump-empathy-plea\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said people need to give President Trump more &ldquo;empathy&rdquo; after Trump posted that he was &ldquo;glad&rdquo; former FBI Director Robert Mueller was dead. &ldquo;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&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}