Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained about Kamala Harris not picking out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year, just before he ranted about Buttigieg’s time as transportation secretary.

Bessent was on Fox Business yesterday when host Maria Bartiromo asked him about Harris’ revelation in her new book, 107 Days, that she wanted to pick Buttigieg as her running mate last year but didn’t think America would vote for a Black woman running with a gay man. Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner–if I were a straight white man,” she wrote.

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“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she continued. “Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”

“First shows her emphasis on identity politics and the American people moved on, two, it shows how low regard she holds the American people,” Bessent complained, Mediaite reports. “She was just a terrible candidate.”

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He then said that she shouldn’t have picked Buttigieg, citing current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s complaints that all the transportation problems that occurred during the current administration are really Buttigieg’s fault.

“You wouldn’t pick Pete Buttigieg because he might have been the worst transportation secretary in history. I can tell you, your friend, my friend, Sean Duffy is a great Transportation Secretary,” Bessent said. “Pete Buttigieg left him a mess, the FAA is a disaster, Amtrak – anything to do with transportation was woefully neglected over the past four years.”

“So, she judges him on identity, his sexuality. Let’s look and see whether he did a good job, let’s look on merit, and I can tell you on merits a failure and on merits she is a failure.”

Harris stressed in her book that she and her husband, Doug Emhoff, are personal friends with Buttigieg and his husband, author Chasten Buttigieg.

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