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Donald Trump Explains Things
Cuz he knows more about everything than anyone else does. Right?
A recent quote from Trump, appearing in a Raw Story article (among others) — link to his Truth Social post here:
‘The Wall Street Journal ran a typically untruthful story today by saying that Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, explained to me that firing Jerome “Too Late” Powell, the Worst Federal Reserve Chairman in History, would be bad for the Market, Trump wrote. ‘Nobody had to explain that to me.’
Not an especially unreasonable statement, right? Trump seems to simply be saying that he already knew that firing Powell would be bad for the financial market.
Forget for the moment whether the WSJ story was accurate and based on verified information. But if Trump already knew that firing Powell was a bad idea (i.e. didn’t need it explained to him), why had he been shooting off his mouth to Congress about firing Powell?
You might also note that (departing from the usual Trump M.O.) he doesn’t deny that Bessent spoke to him about it. I was in fact simply drooling while waiting for the next crazy statements so often heard before … like “Bessent is on his way out himself,” or that “I’ve never even spoken to Bessent,” or “I don’t even know who Bessent is.”
