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Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary is Scott Bessent. Here's what to comprehend

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Who: Scott Bessent

Nominated for: Secretary of Treasury

You might know them from: The longtime investor and hedge fund manager was little known outside of Wall Street until he became one of the top economic advisers to President-elect Donald Trump's campaign.

Bessent is a former protégé of George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic mega donor.
After Trump won the election in November, Bessent won an unusually public – and messy – competition to be nominated for the Treasury Secretary role.
His husband and children sat behind Bessent at today's hearing. If confirmed, he will become the first openly gay, Senate-confirmed Cabinet official in a Republican administration.

What does this role do: The Secretary of the Treasury advises on economic policy and the financial system. If confirmed, Bessent will be responsible for implemen

TRAITOR: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has blood on his hands

There are a lot of conversations in the LGBTI community about Prides becoming “too commercial,” but what about grassroots, leftist radical Prides? Well, the idea of community-organized, grassroots Prides is amazing, but unfortunately, it is very human to make mistakes.

While big LGBTI Prides that are organized with aid from businesses are trying to be inclusive, grassroots Prides have sometimes gone too far in their attempts to create an “edgy,” rebellious atmosphere. Some slogans that have been used at “independent” Prides create more problems than they solve, making these events non inclusive and unacceptable for a grand part of the LGBTI community.

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ROYALS EXTRA BY SALLY BEDELL SMITH

I first heard of Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump’s choice for Treasury Secretary, in 2013 when I was researching my biography, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life. My late friend Robert Higdon, the executive director of the Washington, D.C. based Prince of Wales Foundation from 1997 to 2011, told me he was “one of our preliminary donors.”

Bessent’s background as a successful and exceedingly wealthy financial strategist for billionaire investor George Soros has dominated the headlines since his appointment on November 22^nd. What is less well-known is the end connection that sixty-two-year-old Bessent forged nearly thirty years ago with Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles when he kept a much lower profile while working in London. In a Royals Extra on November 19, 2023,An essential moment for Charles and Camilla that The Crown may overlook, I described how Bessent, then only thirty-seven, had a pivotal role in hosting and orchestrating Camilla’s breakthrough trip to the United States in 1999. The see helped bring her out of the shadows at age fifty-two following the death of Diana Princess of W

Trump’s War on Gay, Female homosexual, and Trans People

When Donald Trump ran for president last year, he signaled that he would not be far-right on social issues. He tried to defuse the issue of abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade by saying that it was now up to the states, as if this preserved rights. He refused to say whether he personally opposed abortion.

And on LGBTQ rights, the Republican platform, at Trump’s request, did not propose ending marriage equality. All of this was a classic Trump feint.

Trump’s administration has worked with state officials on vigilante laws intended to punish people who seek reproductive care out of state. He has redoubled the attempt to deny federal funds to Planned Parenthood. Trump’s appointees keep trying to prohibit medications that induce abortion, the safest and most widespread method.

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And the attack on gay and trans people keeps escalating. On Inauguration Day, Trump declared that “only two genders,” male and female, would be recognized going forward by the federal government. He signed an executive order to that e