Yale Classmates Warn Scott Bessent

A group of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s classmates at Yale University urged him in a new letter to reconsider his role “in facilitating the Trump administration’s intended transformation” of the United States “into an authoritarian state,” CNBC reports.

Responded Bessent: “It is equal parts odd and sad that a group of people, most of whom I have never met, feel they have standing in my life choices due to a tenuous overlap from 40 years ago.”

He added: “How very brave of these people to wage their campaign from behind a keyboard rather than to engage in the real-life political process. They should look inward, exercise some agency, and come out from behind their desks—like I did—to get involved in the 2028 electoral cycle.”