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Scott Bessent moved to military base for safety after Iran threats and photo exposing his $12M home
- Newsrooms
- 17
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
6 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 3579 stories, and number 26 of 1502 in News.Why it’s moving
- Across the spectrumLeft, centre and right are all on it: 6 left, 4 centre and 7 right newsrooms.
1File photo: Scott Bessent
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved from his Washington-area home to a military base after Iranian threats against his life, according to a report published Tuesday. The New York Times, citing three people familiar with the matter, reported that Bessent recently relocated after American offic
The Independent didn’t include a summary, so this is The Daily Wire’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Scott Bessent
Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent is an American businessman and government official serving as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury since 2025. Bessent was a partner at Soros Fund Management (SFM) and founded Key Square Group, a global macro trading firm. He is the first openly gay person to lead the U.S. Treasury, becoming the highest-ranking LGBTQ government official in American history.4
The story so far
17 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 19
- Newsrooms and sources
- 17
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (3 in the last three hours, 6 in the three before).
First with it: The Daily Wire, 2 hr 59 min before anyone else.
Reported by 17 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, PerthNow (all Seven West Media).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
The Daily Wire
The New York Times
The Straits Times
The Hindu
The Globe and Mail
Middle East Eye
Just the News
Townhall
Hindustan Times
CNBC
The Times of India
Israel Hayom
CNA
The West Australian
South China Morning Post
The Guardian
The Independent