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Treasury secretary worth $500 million says he feels soybean farmers’ pain

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 27, 2025
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Scott Bessent wants you to know he feels your pain. The Treasury Secretary, worth $500 million, looked into the camera and told ABC’s Martha Raddatz that he understands what soybean farmers are going through because he’s a soybean farmer too.

Except he’s not. As reported in Rolling Stone, Bessent is a landlord who owns $25 million in North …

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