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turbinetree

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Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:21 PM Dec 21

'The night turned sour': Cabinet official called 'poor baby' after his dinnertime freakout

By David McAfee
Published December 21, 2025 12:57 PM ET

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent hosted a dinner for his predecessors at which he believed he was being "unfairly" criticized for his actions in Donald Trump's administration, leading one journalist to label him a "poor little baby."

The Washington Post on Sunday published a story called "Market-savvy Treasury chief Scott Bessent emerges as unlikely MAGA warrior," in which it reported, "Wall Street accepts partisan jousting as price of influence with Trump."

"President Donald Trump’s combative treasury secretary in recent days has attacked prominent Democrats by name on social media, described inflation as largely a blue state problem, and lampooned three Democratic governors as 'Grinches' and 'radical leftists' suffering from 'Trump Derangement Syndrome,'" the outlet reported. "The jousting shows that compared to his predecessors in both parties, Bessent is unusually eager to engage in partisan combat. He attended the president’s campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania this month, a rare move for a treasury secretary. In a recent appearance at the New York Times’ DealBook conference, he responded to questions about Trump administration practices with gibes about former president Barack Obama and Hunter Biden, the son of another former Democratic president, and echoed his boss’s attacks on the press, claiming that he no longer reads the Times."

https://www.rawstory.com/scott-bessent-2674818196/

Bessent got two quick questions to ask you........

How much taxes /tariffs did the state of South Carolina pay into the coffers of the US Treasury.......compared to California
How much did your Key Square Group, pay into taxes .............of late

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'The night turned sour': Cabinet official called 'poor baby' after his dinnertime freakout (Original Post) turbinetree Dec 21 OP
To better understand this asshole Henry203 Dec 21 #1

Henry203

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1. To better understand this asshole
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:52 PM
Dec 21

And the question that he should be asked “ why did you support the party of same sex marriage and as soon as it became the law of the land you became a conservative? Are you so selfish that once you got yours eff everyone else?

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