SWAMP WATCH – New Edition!

Commentary by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

President-elect Donald Trump has made a flurry of new appointments to his administration at the end of this week, and for now I want to focus on two of them for this edition of SWAMP WATCH: 

The New Treasury Secretary is Billionaire gay man Scott Bessent, and the New Surgeon General is Fox News TV doctor Janette Nesheiwat, a champion of the Trump COVID-19 shots who stated during COVID that “vaccine hesitancy” to the Trump COVID-19 shots was a “global threat” to distribute more COVID-19 vaccines.

The Billionaire Wall Street Fund Manager Scott Bessent is getting praises from Wall Street and even the Corporate Media as the new Treasury Secretary.

The LGBTQ+ community is also praising this appointment as the “first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to be Treasury secretary and one of only a few to ever hold a Cabinet or Cabinet-level position.”

Trump nominates investment manager Scott Bessent, a gay man, as Treasury secretary

Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent, a billionaire investment manager who is gay, as secretary of the Treasury.

Bessent, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, would be the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to be Treasury secretary and one of only a few to ever hold a Cabinet or Cabinet-level position.

Bessent, 62, is the founder of Key Square Capital Management, a hedge fund. His background may upset some of the MAGA crowd, however.

From 2011 to 2015, before starting Key Square, he was chief investment officer at Soros Fund Management, a hedge fund founded by George Soros, and Bessent had worked for Soros’s firm at various times since 1991.

Soros is a major donor to Democrats and a bête noire of the far right.

But “Trump liked [Bessent’s] billionaire bona fides and the fact that he converted to the MAGA movement after working for Soros,” CNN reports.

Bessent donated to Trump’s presidential campaign and advised him on economic policy. He has contributed to some other Republican politicians and is a longtime friend of Vice President-elect JD Vance, but he also has donated to Democrats, including Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. He hosted a fundraising event for Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000. (Full article.)

Bessent had been the favorite for this position in Trump’s new administration since the election, but Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., lobbied strongly against him.

The Wall Street Journal had a good piece today reporting on this infighting in the MAGA camp.

How Scott Bessent Won the ‘Knife Fight’ to be Trump’s Treasury Secretary

It was Scott Bessent’s job to lose—and he almost did.

But after two weeks of uncertainty, Donald Trump selected Bessent, a longtime investor, as his next Treasury secretary. The pick capped a drawn-out, behind-the-scenes game of thrones marked by suspicion, personal animus and last-minute U-turns.

Bessent was the odds-on favorite to land the coveted cabinet post in a second Trump administration—long before the former president won the election. Trump called the Key Square Capital Management founder “one of the most brilliant men on Wall Street” and praised him in private conversations with friends and advisers.

All the while, Bessent and his allies executed a public-relations campaign aimed at cementing his front-runner status, booking him on cable news shows that Trump is known to watch and placing op-eds in the media outlets he follows closely. Bessent was at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Florida, for hours in the buildup to Trump officially releasing the decision.

Trump told friends shortly before the Bessent announcement that he trusted him to execute the administration’s policies more than any of the other contenders.

Trump’s advisers also said that the president-elect, who is known to take appearance into account when hiring, felt that the gray-haired, bespectacled Bessent looked the part.

But Bessent’s glide path was upended by an 11th-hour play for the job by Cantor Fitzgerald Chief Executive Howard Lutnick, which culminated in Elon Musk signaling to his 200 million social media followers that he backed Lutnick and viewed Bessent as a “business-as-usual choice.”

Bessent’s opponents regularly reminded Trump that Bessent worked for years at an investment firm run by George Soros, a frequent boogeyman of conservatives.

They also circulated to Trump’s advisers returns from Key Square, the investment firm Bessent founded, that they argued showed years of unremarkable performance, hoping to raise questions about his finance bona fides, according to people familiar with the matter.

But the data was truncated to leave out years in which Key Square outperformed and excluded a successful business he spun out, Bessent’s allies said.

Last weekend, the infighting between the two businessmen became so bitter and public—Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. both weighed in on social media—that Trump felt he had to consider other candidates. (Full article.)

I think it is easy to conclude from this that Musk and RFK, Jr. are not exactly in “Trump’s inner circle.”

In the end, Trump went with the Wall Street Billionaire’s Club, which could spell trouble for Big Tech, and their huge bubble in Bitcoin and Tech stocks that have soared since Trump’s election.

Trump seems to have deliberately waited until Wall Street closed on Friday afternoon to announce Bessent as the Treasury Secretary, so it will be interesting to see what will happen on Monday in the financial markets.

Meanwhile, apparently Musk has finally gone home and is no longer hanging around Mar-a-Lago anymore, and it was reported yesterday that he just became the “The No. 1 ‘Diablo 4’ Player In The World“.

As I reported earlier in the week, he had dropped all the way down to #43 in the demon online game while following Trump around.

Also announced yesterday was Trump’s choice to be the Top Doctor in the U.S., the “Surgeon General.”

She is a TV doctor on Fox News, and she loves the COVID-19 “vaccines.” She likes them so much, she advocated for more forms to get the mRNA “vaccines” into more people besides just using needles.

I’m sure Josef Mengele would have been proud of her.

She also made it clear during the COVID Scam that “vaccine hesitancy” was a huge threat to rolling out the Trump shots.

Will This Affect the MAGA Cult’s Enthusiasm?

I seriously doubt that these appointments, nor any others Trump makes, will have any effect on the MAGA cult members who are just thrilled to have their new King elected.

They email me all the time to defend him, so I already know that their response to these picks will fall into one of two broad categories.

1. “Trust the Plan.” Trump has a plan and we just have to trust it, as he plays 5D chess. If he didn’t make these appointments, then the alternative is that we will all be rounded up and forced to live in FEMA camps for the next ten years.

2. Trump is being fooled again by the people surrounding him, and he has no idea what he is doing. So we need to get word to him fast so he stops choosing these “RHINOS”!

This was an actual comment someone made on our Rumble channel about the Susie Wiles Chief of Staff announcement:

HOLLY SHIT!!!!!! YOU MUST GET THIS TO TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY>>>>>>WE MUST GET THE PURE MAGA IN THERE…

You have lifted up the shrine of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. (Acts 7:43)

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