BARTIROMO: She wouldn’t take on Pete Buttigieg because he was gay, because she said it was a risk to have a running mate who was a gay man. Your reaction.

BESSENT: Three things, Maria.

First, it shows her emphasis on identity politics, and the American people have moved on.

Two, it shows how low regard she holds the American people. She was just a terrible candidate.

And three, you wouldn’t pick Pete Buttigieg because he might have been the worst transportation secretary in history.

If I thought I was left a mess at Treasury, I can tell you, your friend, my friend, Sean Duffy, our great transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg left him a mess. The FAA is a disaster. Amtrak. You know, anything to do with transportation was woefully neglected over the past four years.

She judges him on his identity, his sexuality. Let’s look and see whether he did a good job. Let’s look on merit, and I can tell you on merit, he was a failure, and on merit, she’s a failure.