Trump Has Drafted Letter to Fire Fed Chair and Asked Republicans if He Should (www.nytimes.com)

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President Trump showed off a draft of a letter firing the chair of Federal Reserve, Jerome H. Powell, during a meeting with roughly a dozen House Republicans on Tuesday night, polling them as to whether he should do it and indicating that he likely would, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

The NYT contains several quotes from the CBS story ,but skips much of the name calling Trump uses against Powell.

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[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 weeks ago

They're not talking about dissolving the Fed, just getting rid of Powell because the big baby isn't getting what he wants in terms of cheaper money.

[-] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe not in this article, but he was throwing around the idea of getting rid of the fed all together and going back to the gold standard.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

At this point I don't see how that's possible.

[-] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't think it would be possible for him to start erecting concentration camps, but here we have Gator Alcatraz in FL, and two more being built. Once they are done with brown people, who do you think is next? Who said fascism died, (and btw, I realize it exists on both sides of the isle?)

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