Bessent got caught on camera at a Camp David cabinet meeting with a notepad reading “To Do: Buy Japanese Yen $5-10 bil” — hours before the Treasury executed exactly that market intervention, letting photographers and, by extension, anyone trading currency markets that day, see the government’s next move in advance. When asked directly by the Senate Finance Committee whether Trump and his family still retain immunity from IRS audits after the $1.776 billion fund settlement, Bessent refused to answer, citing “ongoing litigation” — even as the judge overseeing that very litigation had already admonished the Justice Department for a lack of transparency about the settlement’s terms. A Treasury Secretary’s core job is safeguarding market integrity and public trust in how the government handles money. Bessent has managed both a literal information-leak risk to currency markets and a direct stonewall on whether the president’s own family still gets special tax treatment.