GOP Senator Gets Fooled By Obviously Fake Fed Chair Resignation Letter | EUROtoday

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) posted — after which deleted — what appeared at first look Tuesday to be a resignation letter from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump’s nemesis of the previous a number of months.

Trump has repeatedly argued that Powell ought to both decrease rates of interest throughout the nation or resign. He has gone as far as to trace at — after which backtrack on — the concept that he could fireplace Powell himself.

The letter briefly shared by Lee, nonetheless, is clearly a pretend, and Powell shouldn’t be going wherever instantly.

The formatting of the letter is unusual, with line breaks at odd intervals. But most tellingly, the phrases round an official-looking blue seal stamped to the letter seem to learn: “OEOD OF GOVERYAEB EIREBAL RESERVE SIEIVA.”

In different phrases, gibberish.

A spokesperson for the senator didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.

Trump appointed Powell as chair of the Fed again in 2017, though he has tried to distance himself from that call in latest days.