Moment liberal MSNBC star reveals he is 'conflicted' over openly gay Trump Treasury pick Scott Bessent

MSNBC prima Jonathan Capehart has confessed that helium feels conflicted that Donald Trump chose an openly-gay antheral arsenic his prime to pb the Treasury Department.

Capehart, who is besides gay, shared connected Sunday that helium feels torn astir Scott Bessent's nomination due to the fact that the hedge money enforcement would beryllium the highest-ranking openly cheery authorities authoritative ever.

'You cognize if confirmed, helium would beryllium the highest ranking retired LGBT idiosyncratic ever to service — to beryllium appointed and confirmed by the United States Senate,' Capehart

'And I said, you know, benignant of conflicted astir it.'

Guest Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist, past stepped in, saying: 'In that case, recognition wherever it's due...

'It is precise interesting, yes, that is Trump and not 1 of our squad that made that historical nomination.'

President-elect Trump announced the wealth manager arsenic his pick to tally the Treasury connected Friday.

Bessent is simply a past protagonist of Democrats who has go an enthusiastic protagonist of Trump. He’s an advocator of cutting spending portion extending the taxation cuts approved by Congress successful Trump’s archetypal term. 

He has been joined to erstwhile authoritative John Freeman since 2011 and they person 2 sons. 

Before becoming a Trump donor and adviser, Bessent donated to assorted Democratic causes successful the aboriginal 2000s, notably Al Gore’s statesmanlike run. He besides worked for George Soros, a large protagonist of Democrats. 

Bessent, 62, would beryllium the archetypal openly LGBTQ Senate-confirmed furniture subordinate successful a Republican administration.

In 2020, Trump named Richard Grenell, who is openly gay, acting manager of nationalist intelligence. However, the relation was not taxable to Senate confirmation.

Pete Buttigieg is the archetypal openly LGBT Senate-confirmed Cabinet member, nominated by President Joe Biden to pb the proscription department. 

In 2015, Bessent told the Yale Alumni Magazine: 'If you had told maine successful 1984, erstwhile we graduated, and radical were dying of AIDS, that 30 years aboriginal I’d beryllium legally joined and we would person 2 children via surrogacy, I wouldn’t person believed you.'

Bessent follows different fiscal luminaries who person taken the job, including erstwhile Goldman Sachs executives Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson and Steven Mnuchin, Trump's archetypal Treasury chief.

Janet Yellen, the existent caput and archetypal pistillate successful the job, antecedently chaired the Federal Reserve and White House Council of Economic Advisers.

As the 79th Treasury secretary, Bessent would fundamentally beryllium the highest-ranking U.S. economical official, liable for maintaining the plumbing of the world's largest economy, from collecting taxes and paying the nation's bills to managing the $28.6-trillion Treasury indebtedness marketplace and overseeing fiscal regulation, including handling and preventing marketplace crises.

The Treasury brag besides runs U.S. fiscal sanctions policy, oversees the U.S.-led International Monetary Fund, World Bank and different planetary fiscal institutions, and manages nationalist information screenings of overseas investments successful the U.S.

Writing connected Truth Social making the announcement, Trump explained Bessent's credentials.

'I americium astir pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to service arsenic the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Scott is wide respected arsenic 1 of the World's foremost International Investors and Geopolitical and Economic Strategists,' Trump began.

'Scott's communicative is that of the American Dream. Scott has agelong been a beardown advocator of the America First Agenda. On the eve of our Great Country's 250th Anniversary, helium volition assistance maine usher successful a caller Golden Age for the United States, arsenic we fortify our presumption arsenic the World's starring Economy, Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurialism, Destination for Capital, portion always, and without question, maintaining the U.S. Dollar arsenic the Reserve Currency of the World,' Trump wrote.