Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent drew online scorn after he tried dismissing a damning report as 'backroom gossip.' In a post on X, Bessent slammed Timiraos and his reporting on the Trump-appointed Federal Reserve chairman, Kevin Warsh. "One of the highlights of the Warsh Fed has been watching stenographers posing as journalists, like the WSJ's Nick Timiraos, reduced to reporting Fed backroom gossip," Bessent wrote. Not sure what part of free markets and free press requires the Treasury Secretary to second guess it all." "Has there ever been a trashier Treasury Secretary than Scott Bessent?"