A Soros in Sheep's Clothing in Trump's Cabinet?

A Soros in Sheep’s Clothing in Trump’s Cabinet?
 
By Cliff Kincaid
 
Conservatives in the MAGA movement reacted with horror when Joe Biden gave George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yet, they have applauded President Trump’s nomination of the former top investor for George Soros to be the Secretary of the Treasury.
 
If confirmed, Scott Bessent will not only be a close Soros confidant but the first “gay” Treasury Secretary in history.
 
A former supporter of Trump’s arch enemy Hillary Clinton, Bessent suddenly emerged during the campaign as a Trump supporter and has now managed to get Trump’s blessing and nomination as Treasury Secretary. He went from top investor for the globalist billionaire to advocate for the Trump agenda of nationalism, populism, and tariffs.
 
Ignoring Bessent’s service to the hedge fund billionaire who almost single-handedly destroyed the criminal justice system and has funded the Democratic Party for decades, many conservatives and Republicans are endorsing Bessent simply because President Trump nominated him. They consider his conversion to MAGA to be legitimate.
 
But it could be a mistake of global proportions.
 
Many of the ways Soros made his money, through financial currency speculation and manipulation, were based on advice offered by Scott Bessent.
 
The explanation for this bizarre nomination and conservative silence over its implications may lie in Bessent’s stake in All Seasons, a conservative publisher that has been very kind to MAGA, with several authors being either former Trump officials such as Peter Navarro or sympathetic to the MAGA agenda.
 
Yet, the Tablet magazine has published a damaging expose about an alleged conflict of interest involving Bessent’s venture into “conservative” publishing.
 
Under the headline, “The George Soros Partner Who Disrupted Right-Wing Publishing,” the magazine charged that Bessent “has a funny habit of signing big-name MAGA authors to book contracts, then suing them,” and cited the case of a book by conservative author Lee Smith that had reportedly included criticism of George Soros. All Seasons Press then published a rebuttal, accusing author Lee Smith and Tablet of McCarthyism.
 
For those of us who believe that Soros needs to answer for what he has done with his billions of dollars, this is a major concern.
 
In his Thursday appearance before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, he should be asked some other important questions, especially regarding his relationship with Soros. For example:

• He worked at Soros Fund Management, founded by Democratic Party donor George Soros. When did he suddenly realize that he disagreed with Soro’s left-wing politics?

 

• Bessent's shift to supporting Trump has been described as “a notable political turn.” Why should we believe he is sincere in this conversion? Why shouldn’t we conclude he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing in the second Trump Administration?

 

• Bessent in the 2000 presidential campaign supported and hosted Democratic Party Vice President Al Gore. The New York Times said Bessent was then a “major donor to Democrats who co-hosted the event at his home.” How does he move from supporting a “climate change” Democrat like Al Gore to the MAGA Republican agenda?

 

• The Times said Bessent “gave money to top Democrats including Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama.” Were these donations made to curry favor with George Soros? Or was Bessent then a true-believer in the ideology of the Democratic Party?

 

• When Bessent started his own hedge fund, Key Square Capital in 2016, why did he accept $2 billion from George Soros?

 

• Bessent was described as one of George Soros’s right-hand men when Soros bet against the British pound on what came to be known as “Black Wednesday.” Bessent also teamed up with Soros to bet against the value of the Japanese yen, causing it to plummet against every major global currency, making more than $1 billion in the process. How does he defend international financial manipulations to destabilize friendly governments?

 

• Will Trinkle, a Democrat operative, was quoted by the Times as saying that Bessent, who would be the first openly gay Treasury secretary if confirmed by the Senate, was “a strong advocate for gay rights and marriage equality.” After getting “legally married” to another man and having two children via surrogacy, will he now use his position as the first gay Treasury Secretary to push the homosexual agenda?

 

• Will Bessent dismantle the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility and promise Senators at his Thursday confirmation hearing to seek repeal of Joe Biden’s Executive Order 13985 (January 20, 2021) that promoted an “Equity Action Plan” at Treasury?

 

• The Daily Mail reports that Bessent was embroiled in a legal controversy with a former “domestic partner,” before he got married to another man. Sally Bedell Smith reports that Bessent and this individual “had been among an elite group of benefactors contributing $20,000 a year to the Prince of Wales Foundation,” dedicated in part to advancing the global warming or climate change theory as a means by which to destroy the industrial base in the United States. Does Bessent accept this theory? If not, why did he support this foundation as well as Al Gore?

 

• Bessent’s Public Financial Disclosure Report lists an investment in the Global Carbon Credit Corp., a means by which the rich are supposed to somehow reduce the greenhouse gas emissions supposedly driving climate change. (Al Gore was the first “carbon billionaire.”) At the same time, Bessent has called the Inflation Reduction Act, also known as the Green New Scam by President Trump, a “doomsday machine for the budget.” What does he really believe?

 
If Republican Senators don’t raise these matters, the hearing will be dominated by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a far-left Soros-supported member of the Finance Committee once praised by Soros himself as “the most qualified to be president.” Back in 2011, Soros even hosted a fundraiser for Warren and other Democrats.
 
Warren sent a 31-page letter to Bessent, taking issue with Trump’s economic agenda, but failed to raise any concern about his relationship with George Soros.
 
Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee are the following:
Crapo, Mike (ID), Chairman; Grassley, Chuck (IA); Cornyn, John (TX); Thune, John (SD); Scott, Tim (SC); Cassidy, Bill (LA); Lankford, James (OK); Daines, Steve (MT);
Young, Todd (IN); Barrasso, John (WY); Johnson, Ron (WI); Tillis, Thom (NC);
Blackburn, Marsha (TN); and Marshall, Roger (KS).

• Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org