{"id":1040477,"date":"2026-09-03T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1040477\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:30:16","slug":"scott-bessent-tries-to-shame-media-at-presser-and-it-spectacularly-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1040477\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent Tries To Shame Media At Presser And It Spectacularly Backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told to look in the mirror after attacking the media over its coverage of the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference at the G20 Summit of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in North Carolina this week, Bessent was asked whether he believes the conflict, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> launched in February, is \u201ccloser to the end or are we in the middle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bessent claimed Iran no longer controls the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel through which a significant share of the world\u2019s oil passes, and said the country\u2019s regime is now in \u201ca death spiral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then turned his fire on the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the best allies that the Iranians have on this is the media because the media immediately publishes all the lies that they say,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in this audience and every news outlet should be ashamed for publishing that, taking a lying regime at face value,\u201d Bessent added.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of Bessent, a member of an administration that for years has faced intense scrutiny over its own false claims, was not lost on critics on social media:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told to look in the mirror after attacking the media over its coverage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1040478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,6087,50,18244,103],"class_list":["post-1040477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-war","tag-news","tag-scott-bessent","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117206176324671416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}