Scott Bessent: A Deranged Leftist Attempted to Assassinate Me Shortly After I Became Secretary of the Treasury
The New Republic: Don't You Understand You're Forcing Us Lefties to Murder You?

Gerald Posner @geraldposner

🔥 At the State Department's Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent answered critics who doubt the seriousness of far left political violence by making the threat personal.

Off-script, he reminded the room -- delegates from roughly 65 nations -- that he was the target of an assassination attempt by a left-wing activist two hours after being sworn in. (Bessent gave the wrong year on camera -- he said 2024; the actual date was January 27, 2025 -- but the case is real: a guilty plea, a federal docket, sentencing set for August 14.)

Bessent also announced Treasury is expanding its financial enforcement authorities -- OFAC, FinCEN, IRS-CI -- to investigate nonprofits and charities being used as cover to finance political violence, saying "violence requires money, channels through which funding can move, and institutions behind which it can hide."

This is the same pattern Secretary Rubio has been warning about -- violent far-left extremism dismissed as fringe, until it's the Treasury Secretary himself.
Bessent's challenge to the skeptics: be there for the sentencing.

The New Republic makes the case for terrorism and assassination by mocking Bessent and asking him, doesn't he realize that he has forced people to "resist" in just this way?

Bonus:

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:45 PM

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