JGalt
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Is this acceptable to MAGA? We constantly hear complaints about Soros funding far left extremists for political office. Can a former colleague of the man for nearly two decades be trusted to be the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury?
Hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent, the pro-tariff Wall Street veteran and former colleague of Democratic megadonor George Soros, will become perhaps the most prominent voice shaping the Trump economy, with Bessent reportedly earning Trump’s nomination to become his Treasury Secretary amid a high-profile power struggle for the post.
Bessent worked for Soros from 1991 to 2000, rising to the firm’s head of European allocation by his departure, and returned to Soros from 2011 to 2015 as the fund’s chief investment officer, departing again to run Key Square with a $2 billion investment from the 94-year-old Soros (the Wall Street Journal reports Bessent hasn’t talked to his former boss Soros “in years”).
You get brilliant employees wherever you can get them, and the key word in this thread is "former."
Bessent has been a major fundraiser and donor for Donald Trump. He was an economic advisor for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.