Life presents few spectacles more annoying and contemptible than that of a grandstanding politician.
One such spectacle presents itself, however, when the politician in question appears to lack both understanding and judgment.
During testimony Wednesday in front of the House Financial Services Committee, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent must have assumed he had entered “The Twilight Zone” when Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York repeatedly and aggressively pressed him for details of ongoing trade negotiations, prompting Bessent to shut down the inappropriate inquiry by declaring “that it would be detrimental to the interests of the United States for me to answer that question.”

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