Inept, incompetent, craven: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the presidents mess

Theres little optimism about treasury secretarys ability to handle Trumps tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debtHistory remembers Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe during the second world war, for his role in the D-day invasion of Normandy. Whether Scott Bessent will achieve similar posterity as the face of the economic D-day in Iran remains to be seen.The US treasury secretary, already trying to manage a $40tn national debt pile, this week took ch...