Lawrence O’Donnell delivered a blistering critique of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday, branding the multimillionaire a “sleazy punk” and a “buffoon” over his outlandish defenses of President Donald Trump.
“That may be a Trump Cupboard invention,” O’Donnell mentioned. “They invented it this time round. That’s not what they had been doing final time. We’ve by no means had a extra ridiculous secretary of the Treasury than that clown who you simply noticed.”
O’Donnell mentioned he as soon as believed Trump’s first-term Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, represented the low level for the function.
“However he now appears to be like like a statesman in comparison with the buffoon Donald Trump has put in that job to lie for him on daily basis,” O’Donnell mentioned, arguing that Bessent — a married homosexual man — was humiliating himself by serving Trump and the GOP.
O’Donnell prompt Bessent’s conduct modified as soon as he got here into Trump’s orbit. “There was no proof of Scott Bessent being a pathological liar earlier than working for Donald Trump,” he mentioned. “However he’s Donald Trump’s finest pupil within the artwork type of Trump-speak, which is deranged, irrational, irrelevant mendacity.”
Bessent is now Trump’s “most tortured confederate,” per the title of O’Donnell’s evaluation. Watch the clip right here: