‘Sounds Like Malarkey’: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Calls Out Trump Treasury Secretary Blaming Biden On China

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Oct 2nd, 2025, 2:14 pm

At the end of a relatively friendly interview with Joe Kernan , Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made one statement about Chinese trade that had the CNBC host crying foul.

“We’ll just end quickly on China because we did have Ambassador [David] Perdue on yesterday,” Kernen said. “He met President Xi [Jinping] and had some corporate leaders over there that hadn’t been over in a while. and he wasn’t going to comment on trade. He said he’s more commenting on the relationship between the two countries, said that you would have to comment on trade. Any softening at all? Any positive things happening right now that we could expect to

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