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The former Trump campaign advisor’s views on women and other subjects sparked criticism from lawmakers, including Republicans.
The president with a gift for undercutting his own institutions is laying the groundwork to strip the most important central bank in the world of its political independence.
Trump’s Fed pick is getting properly raked over the coals for sexual harassment and general incompetence, but why is everyone forgetting his virulent Islamophobia?
“These two guys are just goofs—they’re a pair of dangerously goofy goofs—and this isn’t actually a job where that’s OK,” explained the ‘Last Week Tonight’ host.
He contradicts himself one book, op-ed, and white paper to another, confident that in the United States of Amnesia no one is keeping track.
Trump, who believes the Fed held off interest-rate hikes in 2012 to help re-elect Obama, is determined to get his own thumb on the scale ahead of his 2020 contest.
“The only problem our economy has is the Fed,” Trump tweeted, after reassurances from Mnuchin that he wouldn't fire Jerome Powell.