{"id":9235,"date":"2026-07-16T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/scott-bessent-confirms-fort-knox-full-of-gold-despite-musks-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:51:10","slug":"scott-bessent-confirms-fort-knox-full-of-gold-despite-musks-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/scott-bessent-confirms-fort-knox-full-of-gold-despite-musks-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent confirms Fort Knox full of gold despite Musk\u2019s claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Early in Donald Trump\u2019s second term, his special advisor, Elon Musk, began to promote a conspiracy theory that suggested that Fort Knox didn\u2019t contain the gold it was supposed to.<\/p>\n

This was always nonsensical; documents released in Trump\u2019s first term confirm that the Treasury Office of Inspector General conducts \u201caudits of United States Mint Custodial Gold Schedules\u201d on an annual basis.<\/p>\n

This audit \u201cincludes an inspection of all gold compartments and joint seals to verify the compartments are locked, and the seals are in-tact and have not been tampered with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, despite Musk promoting the claim that the gold hadn\u2019t been seen since 1974, during Trump\u2019s first term it was actually visited by then Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and photos of them inside the vault were released.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk imagines Fort Knox empty as others pitch Strategic Bitcoin Reserve<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Read more: Zero Hedge invited to White House press pool despite lies about Fort Knox gold<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Recently, Scott Bessent, the current treasury secretary, went on Jesse Watters\u2019 show on Fox News and confirmed<\/a> that all the gold is present and accounted for \u2014 over $1 trillion worth in total.<\/p>\n

Musk, for his part, hasn\u2019t posted about this most recent confirmation, with his last X post about Fort Knox coming<\/a> in February of last year.<\/p>\n

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Early in Donald Trump\u2019s second term, his special advisor, Elon Musk, began to promote a conspiracy theory that suggested that Fort Knox didn\u2019t contain the gold it was supposed to. This was always nonsensical; documents released in Trump\u2019s first term confirm that the Treasury Office of Inspector General conducts \u201caudits of United States Mint Custodial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}