Is Scott Bessent Still Working for Soros?

Is Scott Bessent Still Working for Soros?

By Cliff Kincaid

Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) is calling for an investigation “into the role that groups backed by George Soros, such as the Open Society Foundations, have played in funding left-wing political violence.” That is great, except for the fact that a key administration player supposedly involved in “following the money” once worked for Soros. And that is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

I dare say this is a potential conflict of interest.

For those still in the dark regarding Bessent and his pay master, I suggest my column titled A Soros in Sheep’s Clothing in Trump’s Cabinet?

At the White House roundtable on Antifa on Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel said he would rely on Bessent, saying, “We in this FBI will go after the criminals with a vengeance. We will not rest until we find every single seed, money, donor, organization, and funding mechanism that we have.” He added that Bessent is “allowing us to map out these networks through their financial criminal activities, which has been going on for decades.”

He is right about it going on for decades. My group, America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI) began exposing this infrastructure when we held our October 27, 2011 National Press Club “Soros Files” conference.

Soros is the hedge fund operator who made Obama’s Permanent Revolution possible.

Rep. Carter’s letter cites “a growing trend of left-wing violence, including the recent politically-motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

Unfortunately, these calls are too little too late, and they come at a time when Soros operative Bessent can monitor and control what the authorities find when they “follow the money.”

Before he appeared for his confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, I urged Senators to ask some 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?

Unfortunately, the Senators failed to do their jobs and refused to ask any of any pertinent questions. I have little hope that the “follow the money” strategy will pay dividends. It is another wild goose chase.

By any objective measure, Bessent made Soros’s fortune possible. He has a vested interest in making sure the dirty details are never divulged to the American people.

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