With (1) the removal of many internal watchdogs at governmental agencies, and (2) last week's demonstration that the Trump White House is willing and able to manipulate the US capital markets, the nascent premium for US Treasury securities will probably get wider. The absolute trust that investors worldwide have placed in US markets has been shaken, so those investors will demand a premium because of the additional risk from the grift which is now taking over in Washington. Of course, this additional premium will only make it more expensive for the US Government to borrow, but that burden falls more and more to the lower economic classes in this country.
As I've written before, until 2016 political risk was not a significant factor in US securities markets. We are now starting to see the cost of that risk, and it ain't negligible...
Paid? Paid?!? I doubt this dork ever knew about appearance fees. He saw his blathering on Trump's most watched cable channel as padding for his resume...