‘So Staggeringly Dishonest’: Trump Treasury Secretary Stuns With Latest Attempt to Defend Tariffs

Alex Griffing Sep 1st, 2025, 12:29 pm

Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with the president’s daughter-in-law over the weekend for a friendly interview on Fox News. Lara Trump asked Bessent to defend Trump’s tariffs against criticism that they are a tax on Americans, which Bessent dutifully did in a clip that soon went viral for all the wrong reasons.

“They will say that the tariffs are a hidden tax on the consumers here in the country. But give us the reality,” Lara Trump asked, referring to critics of Trump’s tariffs.

“If they’re so bad, and the American consumers are paying them, why do we hear the European companies or the Chinese companies complaining about tariff

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