Scott Bessent Mocked by Left for Saying He Feels the ‘Pain’ of Soybean Farmers Because He is One: ‘Net Worth is Over $500 Million’

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Oct 26th, 2025, 3:56 pm

Liberals are taking to social media to call out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for claiming he feels the “pain” of soybean farmers because he’s one of them.

ABC News’s Martha Raddatz asked Bessent Sunday about the plight of farmers facing Chinese boycotts on American soybeans due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

“American farmers have really suffered ,” Raddatz said Sunday. “Do you see a real light at the end of the tunnel there, they may allow soybeans again?”

“Martha, in case you don’t know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too,” Bessent answered.

According to Bes

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