Hedge fund star-turned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s claims of soybean farming were mocked by those who looked up his real estate portfolio.

Scott Bessent—worth an estimated $600 million according to Forbes—wasn’t well-received when he identified himself as a fellow soybean farmer suffering under China’s boycott.The Secretary of the Treasury appeared on This Week Sunday, and spoke to host Martha Raddatz about the U.S. relationship with China alongside the impacts of tariffs, and shared that he related with the struggles of the working man more than people realized.Predictably, the former hedge fund manager’s self-identification as “actually a soybean farmer” wasn’t lapped up by the masses, who were quick to fact check him online.
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