‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up president’s mess

The Guardian: “He is, bar none, the worst treasury secretary in the history of the United States,” said Steve Schmidt, a former political strategist for President George W Bush and the John McCain presidential campaign. “Because the first treasury secretary was a true genius, the distance between Alexander Hamilton and Bessent in evolutionary scale is the difference between a flea and a human being. He is inept, he is incompetent, he is dishonest, he is smug, he is craven.”…