{"content":"Trump Cabinet member just 'confessed' the president has been 'lying': journalist. If you add it all up, Bessent is only alleging $2.35 trillion in promised investments into the U.S. — way less than Trump's boasts. In short, Scott Bessent just confessed that Trump has been lying in his claims about tariffs. "The frameworks for trade agreements already in place contain additional provisions ‘whereby the trade partners agree to significant purchases from and/or investments in the United States (e.g., the European Union agreed to $750 billion in energy purchases and $600 billion in investment, and Japan and South Korea collectively agreed to about 1 trillion)," "These agreed upon frameworks total in the multiple trillions of dollars. The longer the delay in a ruling, the greater these commitments will become. If these agreed upon frameworks were unwound and the investments and purchases had to be repaid, the economic consequences would be catastrophic." #TariffWar ","images":["https://d2kdcqywr8ua22.cloudfront.net/uploadfile/article/blog/2025092025/09/04/9862c3254ebc4bea8598e3d41c824596.png"],"tags":[],"tradingPairs":[],"quotearticleid":0}