“I have facts. They have opinions.”
That’s how Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent answered me when I asked him why he seems to have such an easy time dismantling the arguments of establishment media reporters. I shared with him my theory that he is able to calmly embarrass anti-Trump journos because he honed his skills debating Yale students while he was a professor. He didn’t reject my suggestion (he had nothing but kind words for his students), instead offering the aforementioned response.
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And through the first year of the Trump administration, Bessent, the avatar of MAGAnomics has certainly had the facts. He stood up to seemingly everyone in the elite consensus (aside from President Trump himself and the writers of the Breitbart Business Digest) and said that not only can we win trade wars with zero new inflation, but countries will be begging us to cut new deals.
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