The Daily Beast
Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s appearance before the Senate Finance Committee took a nasty personal turn on Wednesday when the top Trump official accused Democratic Senator Ron Wyden’s son of being an associate of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Wyden, the ranking member on the committee, accused the Treasury Department of engaging in a cover-up of Epstein’s financial records. He raised this in a hearing on Capitol Hill, where he argued in his opening statement that they needed to “follow the money” but claimed his team has been denied access. Bessent did not address the accusations that the Treasury Department has been lying or denying access, but he seized on Wyden bringing up Epstein with his own line of attack against the Oregon Democrat at the end of his prepared opening statement. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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