‘The Graceless Action of a Heavy Hand’
When it comes to Trump’s assault on Fed Chair Jerome Powell or anyone else who stands in his way, “remember your Shakespeare."
By Michael Judge
My former colleagues at The Wall Street Journal are getting high praise in some liberal and conservative circles for calling last week’s criminal subpoena of Fed Chair Jerome Powell an ill-advised “fiasco.”
As the Journal explained, the subpoena ostensibly “relates to testimony Mr. Powell gave to Congress in June concerning renovations to the Fed’s office buildings,” which have reportedly gone over budget and are seen by some in the Trump administration as—wait for it—“needlessly grandiose.”
“In the annals of political lawfare there’s dumb, and then there’s the criminal subpoena federal prosecutors delivered Friday to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, wrote the Journal. “President Trump would do himself and the country a big favor by firing those responsible for this fiasco.”
Those responsible? Maybe, just maybe, the person …
