Benny Johnson on “pain” in the economy: This is what happens "when you have demonic possession, which is what the country has right now”
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From the April 10, 2025, edition of PBD Podcast streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (GUEST): Scott Bessent, our current Treasury secretary, with George Soros swooped in and made a fortune that couldn't be spent in a hundred thousand lifetimes by betting against, by shorting, the U.K. government and the pound.
And this man saw the structural inefficiencies and the risks associated with the single greatest financial coup in world history arguably, what made George Soros famous. I'm only saying that to say this, Trump is a genius, man, for bringing this guy on, for ignoring the fact that he's friends with Soros, bringing this guy on to work out these structural inefficiencies in our country so that this can't happen to us. And that's what I believe is actually happening here.
Will it lead to recession? I don't know. I'll leave that for people with much higher IQs. I went to community college. But is Scott Bessent on a warpath to create a wall around our home? And I like using the home analogy, the metaphor. I'm sorry, it's gonna get old. But Scott Bessent is out there to reinforce against someone like Soros doing that to the American dollar and the American economy. I am 100% in favor of that.
Yes, there will be pain. Yes, you'll have to exorcise some demons. These are the kind of things that happen when you have a -- when you have demonic possession, which is what the, the country has right now. When you have things that are really bad and wrong with the country, you're gonna have to exorcise them out. But that's what Scott Bessent is doing. And if you understand the full picture of what's happening there as he's trying to -- to protect against what he did to the U.K. -- he's doing that for us? That's amazing.