US treasury secretary Scott Bessent launched a sharp attack on The New York Times at the paper’s own DealBook Summit in New York City on Wednesday, accusing it of running “distorted” coverage of President Donald Trump’s health while failing to confront questions about former President Joe Biden’s decline. In an onstage exchange with Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bessent said the paper was losing credibility and predicted, “You know, in 20, 30, 40, 50 years, the New York Times is no longer the paper of record,” according to reports from Mediaite. Calling the publication a “fever swamp,” he added that he no longer reads the Times himself, as cited by NYP. Bessent was responding to a Times report that said Trump, 79, had “shorter public days,” later starts and moments in which he a

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