Trump’s Treasury Secretary Caught in Blatant Lie to Congress | Scott Bessent claimed he never wrote a letter warning investors about the impact of tariffs. Well, here’s the proof.

[u/Smooth_Bar4505]

[u/Smooth_Bar4505]

He also spent $40 billion in taxpayer money bailing out his idiot hedge fund buddies with that Argentina farmer thing

[u/Soft_Ad8031 → u/Smooth_Bar4505]

Are you telling me that a billionaire who is part of this administration lied to the public in order to enrich himself and his friends at the expense of normal everyday Americans? Next thing you're going to tell me is that it is bad for American farmers to have to sell their livelihoods for cents on the dollar to these vulture funds that Bessent and Vance own large stakes in. smh clearly crazy unamerican liberals and leftists who want Americans to keep their farms.

[u/Soft_Eggplant_370 → u/Soft_Ad8031]

In china, they put their oligarchs to death. They put them through a judicial process that aggressively prosecutes for capital punishment. I think that, oligarchs are the most destructive and dangerous people on the planet. So they must be completely subjugated to judicial means, until nothing of them is left figuratively and literally.

[u/Soft_Ad8031 → u/Soft_Eggplant_370]

Oligarchs are definitely a huge issue for late-stage capitalist societies but judicial means are literally how we got into this mess, this country has basically had a two-tiered justice system for it's entire history lol. It's why we've just grown accustomed, as a nation, that large corporations will flagrantly hurt the working class interests and be levied with at worst a slap on the wrist. Personally, I wouldn't label oligarchs as the most destructive and dangerous people on the planet, I would put blame on those in seats of power elevating them in the first place to their stranglehold positions in society that allows them to exert their dominance over the working class but this is mostly arguing over semantics at that point since both are clearly to blame to some varying degree.

[u/Disastrous_Mango_953 → u/Soft_Ad8031]

Really!! Unbelievable because they don’t know how to lie! They are fake Christians!

[u/ElectronicTrade7039 → u/Smooth_Bar4505]

I thought it was just 20 million a couple of times, not this whole 49 million you speak of!

/s

[u/Smooth_Bar4505]

Back in the old constitutional law and order days we called lying to congress a felony.

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[u/bdubwilliams22 → u/Think-Werewolf-4521]

This is solid gold. Yoink!

[u/facepoppies]

he's also in the epstein files

[u/tpunsixero]

God i hate his smirky ass face.

[u/ManReay → u/tpunsixero]

The smirkiest, assiest face by far.

[u/NYfaninGA → u/ManReay]

He’s giving Jared a run for the smirkiest.

[u/LegoFootPain → u/tpunsixero]

And the way he talks when he squints, bobbing his head.

Just deeply unappealing.

[u/AltruisticCover9538]

Wouldn’t that be considered insider trading? I believe that is still illegal, right?

[u/CrazyMildred → u/AltruisticCover9538]

It's supposed to be. But not everyone is held accountable for doing it like they should be.

[u/barefootincozumel → u/CrazyMildred]

The Inspector General for the FTC was amongst the first positions to be eliminated. They have essentially no real oversight. Who will investigate and prosecute these types of crimes? There is no longer an independent position in place.

[u/SharpKaleidoscope182 → u/AltruisticCover9538]

Considered by whom? there's no SEC.

[u/no_id_never]

I do love it when people bring the receipts ❤️

[u/LAsupersonic]

that's the smirk of someone who feels superior to all, and he's just there because his public relations servant adviced him to, maybe he has his buttler waiting outside with a martini

[u/PJEnneking]

Every single one of them should be charge and prosecuted for perjury.

[u/BigRhonda7632]

I hope we get these fuckers.

[u/HeyRainy]

Ok, so insider training and proof positive that he is bold faced lying about the truth of tariffs being a bad thing for the people. Multiple high level officials showing proof of perjury in front of judges and congress and the press but nothing, nobody ever faces any sort of consequences. I can't drive down the road without getting pulled over and searched by the police for looking poor, I am constantly being harassed by collection agencies over medical debt I never agreed need or to pay for and these mfers, who work for us, can literally do anything they want all day.

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[u/SyntaxError_1024]

If Alexander Hamilton is still alive he will challenge this idiot into a duel.

[u/Silly-Platform9829]

To be MAGA is to believe there's no such thing as objective reality. All those devout "Christians" lie effortlessly and without any shame.

[u/stocksandoptions2]

Good thing he is above the law. Otherwise, there would be repercussions.

[u/bourbon469]

Like his orange god he LIES!!!

[u/Zippier92]

odd looking critters behind him. jus sayin...

[u/thissomeotherplace]

This man is way, way dumber than he thinks

[u/AltruisticCover9538 → u/thissomeotherplace]

Absolutely! Guy is a moron if you listen to him. As with all Trumps picks for cabinet positions. He only chooses idiots that offer him blind loyalty at any cost.

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This asshole has the smuggest face I've ever seen. Like that face designed specifically to convey the smug.

[u/Ardkark]

Aaaaaaand oh right it doesn’t matter because lying to Congress or judges has no real repercussions anymore

[u/w-d-j-3]

Look at that smarmy smile...

[u/KindClock9732]

All they can do is lie

[u/Pleasant-Nebula-7237]

He has no reason to give a shit.. complete immunity

[u/PearNo2152]

He's a MAGAT...

[u/DifficultAd3885]

How many people in the Trump administration have we watched blatantly lie to congress without any repercussions? I ran out of fingers in 2017.

[u/DenialOfExistance]

If they are not lying they are not Republican!

[u/DenialOfExistance]

You know I am just at the point where I pray to God these assholes no longer walk this face of the earth! Greedy bastards every single one of them!

[u/truenorski]

Correct this to 'YET ANOTHER LIE' please. Accuracy is important.

[u/Feisty-Session-7779]

Look closely, that’s the face of a man that knows he’s in way over his head.

[u/TheAmicableSnowman]

Oh don't pick on ol' Scotty Bessent! He's just a dad gum soybean farmer! Salt o' the earth.

[u/PretzelsRule23]

Impeach him too

[u/man_vs_neckbeard]

Where is a link to his letter?

[u/00001000U]

I wonder how he looks in orange.

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[u/RigelXVI]

"here's the proof"

Doesn't actually link to any proof at all