President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Scott Bessent, a prominent investor and CEO of Key Square Capital Management, for Treasury Secretary.
“I am most pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to serve as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States,” Trump wrote in a statement on Truth Social Friday evening. “Scott is widely respected as one of the World’s foremost International Investors and Geopolitical and Economic Strategists. Scott’s story is that of the American Dream.”
“Scott has long been a strong advocate of the America First Agenda,” the statement continues. “On the eve of our Great Country’s 250th Anniversary, he will help me usher in a new Golden Age for the United States, as we fortify our position as the World’s leading Economy, Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurialism, Destination for Capital, while always, and…
