Bessent called Lutnick ‘an idiot’ to his face: Book

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “an idiot” to his face over a minerals deal with Ukraine, according to a new book from two New York Times journalists.

During a Monday episode of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” host Lawrence O’Donnell read off passages from “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” from Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. O’Donnell also had Swan and Haberman on his show, asking them questions about the book, which was released on Tuesday.

One of the passages that O’Donnell read off focused around a conflict between Lutnick and Bessent over a minerals deal with Ukraine. Bessent, according to the passage, was accused of having........

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