Newsom Called Bessent ‘Smug.’ The Treasury Secretary Had No Issue Putting Him Back in His Place.

“Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. He’s here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros, and Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else is on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church,” Bessent said. “Shame on him. He is too smug, too self-absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything.”

He also told Lawrence, “Let me know if you need any further clarification.”

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