Trump is clearly scared about the economy, and he’s setting up Jerome Powell as his fall guy – The Washington Post

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Trump is clearly scared about the economy, and he’s setting up Jerome Powell as his fall guy  The Washington Post

For the first two years of his presidency, Donald Trump bore an existential fear of the Russia investigation. And more often than not, he focused his ire on one …

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