Scott Bessent REALIZES He Just Lost The Argument… PANICS!

Do you think that people who break our laws should be held accountable, our tax laws? Yes. Okay, thank you. Very simple. Not a hard question. I'm glad we agree. So why is it that you are allowing President Trump to have complete immunity from being audited? Again, I'm going to have to refer you to my previous statements. What was your previous statement, sir? I am unable to comment on any of the ongoing litigation. Okay, can you name the ongoing case concerning President Trump's immunity from audit? Sorry? Can you name? There are three cases that are out there now, and I will be happy to get back to you on those, because again, I am not a lawyer. We are represented by the DOJ. Great. You said that you can't, because there's ongoing litigation. You'll get me the name of the ongoing litigation, because the only ongoing litigation that I know of is surrounding the $1.8 million slush fund, which has already been suspended. The fact is that the judge's ruling in the litigation that references that slush fund only addresses the anti-weaponization fund. It doesn't even address Trump's immunity from audit. So I would like to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the judge's order in the Floyd v. Department of Justice case. Yes. Without objection. Thank you. Now, Secretary, you said you're not an attorney. Is that correct? Mercifully. Okay. Well, I am, and I'm actually proud to be an attorney and know the laws, and I know how to read a judicial ruling. Furthermore, I know that since 1962, the Supreme Court has held that ongoing litigation does not prevent someone from testifying in a congressional hearing. So once again, I'm going to ask, why are you allowing President Trump and his family to have complete immunity from being audited? What's up, everybody? Major Retired Bitchin' O'Jenna here. And round and round and round we go, like a carousel that just won't stop spinning. Folks, welcome to the Trump administration's carousel of deflection. And today, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant climbed aboard, but Representative Linda Sanchez wasn't about to let him ride in circles all afternoon. Why are you allowing President Trump and his family to have complete immunity from being audited? Again, since you're a lawyer, you will understand that the U.S. Treasury and the IRS are represented by the Justice Department and the Acting Attorney General. Yes, but I just mentioned a Supreme Court case that doesn't bar you from testifying. It's pretty clear to me, though, however, that you're not interested in answering questions. You're interested in arguing. Instead of answering the question, Scott Besant started arguing about the question, accusing Representative Sanchez of slander, rather than giving the American people the answer that they were waiting to hear. And just like that, the carousel broke down. The excuses weren't working anymore. The finger-pointing wasn't getting him off the hook anymore. And the man who'd spent the entire hearing trying to dodge one simple question suddenly found himself trying to explain why he wouldn't answer it in the first place. Let me ask you this question. If President Biden amended a prior tax return and claimed that he was owed $1 billion, do you think that that would be audited or should it be audited? I'm not going to talk about any, any... Because you're not really here to answer questions. I don't understand why you wouldn't audit that, and I don't understand why you wouldn't Folks, when somebody stops defending their position and starts defending why they refuse to answer the question, you've pretty much learned everything that you need to know. Because this hearing was never about slander. It was about accountability. And accountability is the one ride on the carousel that Scott Besant never wanted to get on. So, the ruling, the ruling by the Justice Department, do you have specific knowledge of an audit of President Trump? Excuse me. It's my time. Do you have specific knowledge? You're not here to ask me questions. I'm here to ask you questions, and hopefully you're here to try to answer some of them. I'm curious to know who counts as Trump's family for the purposes of this immunity. Is it his children, his in-laws, his grandchildren, his second or third cousin, his great-great-grandchildren? Do you know the answer to that question, Mr. Secretary? Again, I imagine you have the Justice Department phone number. I would suggest you call them. I'm not the one that runs the Department of the Treasury or that oversees what is happening with this immunity that has been granted. I'm not the one either. We follow the instructions of our lawyers, and we obey the law. I hope that you're proud of your performance today, Mr. Secretary, because I think it's I think it's pretty safe to say that this is probably the most corrupt Treasury Department in our nation's history, and while you dance around questions to protect Trump, Americans are suffering in Trump's spiraling economy. Inflation is now raising faster than average hourly wages. Gas prices are at an all-time high with the war in Iran. The cost of groceries has risen 3.2 percent over the past years. And prices on most goods have gone up because of Trump's tariffs. So I don't see how you could call that anything other than a failure of the most corrupt Treasury Department in history. Your time has expired, Ms. Sanchez. Representative Linda Sanchez wasn't asking Scott Besson to reveal classified information. She wasn't asking him to predict the future. She wasn't asking him for some complicated legal theory that only constitutional scholars could understand. She asked what should have been one of the simplest questions a Treasury Secretary could answer. If the President of the United States claims a massive tax refund, should that return be audited? To make sure there was no confusion, she even changed the name. She asked, what if it had been Joe Biden? Same question, same hypothetical, same expectation of accountability. And that's when something interesting happened. Scott Besson didn't answer the question. He redirected it. He pointed to the Justice Department. He pointed to ongoing litigation. He pointed just about everywhere, except to direct answer. And around and around they went. Sanchez asked, Besson dodged. Sanchez came back, Besson redirected. She narrowed the question. He widened the answer. Folks, after a while, you realize you're not watching a debate anymore. You're watching someone trying very hard not to step on one very specific landmine. Folks, let's be honest. If dodging questions were an Olympic sport, Scott Besson wouldn't just win the gold medal. He'd have somebody else accept it for him. Every time Representative Linda Sanchez asked one simple question, he came up with another complicated excuse. It was like watching somebody try to cook up a new lie before the last one had even gotten cold. Every time she brought him back to the point, he changed the subject, moved the goalposts, pointed somewhere else, and around and around that carousel of deflection kept on spinning. But here's the funny part. Representative Sanchez wasn't asking him to solve world hunger. She wasn't asking him to reveal the nuclear launch codes. She asked a simple question. She deserved a simple answer. And somehow, that turned out to be the hardest thing in the room. Now maybe, just maybe, Scott Besson believes he did exactly what he was supposed to do. Maybe he thinks sending everybody to the Justice Department was enough. Maybe he thinks the runaround counts as an answer. But that's not what the American people watched. They watched a simple question. They watched repeated opportunities to answer that simple question. And they watched a witness who never really did. That's why this hearing matters. Not because of one exchange. Not because of one politician. But because every American understands what accountability actually looks like. When your boss asks you a question, you answer it. When the IRS sends you a notice, you answer it. When a judge asks you a question, you had better answer it. So when that Treasury Secretary is asked whether the President of the United States should be held to the same standard, Americans expect something better than another ride on the carousel of deflection. Because no matter how many times you spin the ride, no matter how many excuses you pile onto it, no matter how many fingers you point, eventually the music stops. The ride comes to an end. And accountability is still standing there, waiting for you to get off. Whether you're mad about it or not, Scott Besant found out today, and that is an absolute fact. Sapper's crew of the way, Airborne all the way.