John Freeman, a former prosecutor in New York City, is openly gay and stated in an interview that he had aspirations of attending the Naval Academy as a young man, but he decided to not hide his sexual orientation. According to reports, Bessent’s affiliation with Trump is a recent development as the former employee of George Soros has not been overtly a Republican.
Bessent, however, has been acquainted with the Trump family for decades, including Fred Trump, the real estate tycoon and father of Donald Trump. In an interview with Yale Alumni Magazine in 2015, Bessent stated, “If you had told me in 1984, when we graduated [from Yale], and people were dying of AIDS, that 30 years later I’d be legally married and we would have two children via surrogacy, I wouldn’t have believed you.”
