Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly attacked a journalist for daring to report on him dragging the Federal Reserve into President Donald Trump’s effort to prop up a foreign currency. Bessent, 63, melted down Wednesday in a high-brow post that called out Nick Timiraos, the chief economics correspondent at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, by name. It appears Bessent was set off by a relatively straightforward Wall Street Journal report on his effort to drag the Federal Reserve into Trump’s effort to support Japan’s sliding Yen. Bessent may have taken issue with Timiraos’s suggestion that the Trump administration could be encroaching on the Fed’s independence. Joy Malone/Getty ImagesBessent may have taken issue a suggestion that the Trump administration could be encroaching on the Fed’s independence—a touchy topic after Kevin Warsh, Trump’s hand-picked Fed chair, took over at the central bank in May.