There’s been an amusing turn in the saga involving President Trump’s corrupt effort to remove Lisa Cook as governor of the Federal Reserve. Trump has relied on his flunkies to cook up allegations of mortgage fraud against Cook—and other foes, as well—but now news organizations have blown big holes in the scam. They’ve reported that numerous Trump officials, and even relatives of his top ally in the anti-Cook effort, have done similar things on their mortgages. And that’s not the only way this is backfiring on Trump: A new CBS News poll contains brutal findings for Trump across the board, and crucially, it finds that truly huge majorities oppose Trump’s efforts to interfere with the Fed. We talked to New Republic staff writer Matt Ford, who covers legal affairs. He explains why Trump’s use of this tactic is so corrupt, why the stakes in the battle over Cook are larger than they appear, and what might happen when it all lands at the Supreme Court. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
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Trump’s Corrupt Firing of Lisa Cook Backfires as Brutal New Poll Hits
As new reporting blows holes in Trump’s effort to fire the Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook, a legal writer explains why Trump’s use of this tactic is so alarming—and what might happen when this goes to the Supreme Court.
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Lisa Cook, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in Washington, D.C., on June 25
