Speaking to the Detroit Economic Club, the president essentially accused the Fed of stealing his joy by not being bullish about lowering interest rates. It comes as the Trump administration's criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has sparked an outcry, with defenders of the U.S. central bank pushing back against Trump's efforts to exert more control over it.
Patel admitted that his superiors, who he referred to as they' and who Driscoll understood to include Defendant Department of Justice and the White House had directed him to fire anyone who they identified as having worked on a criminal investigation against President Donald J. Trump, the lawsuit alleges. Patel explained that he had to fire the people his superiors told him to fire, because his ability to keep his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on cases
"Investigating the fraud case Attorney General James won against President Trump and his businesses has to be the most blatant and desperate example of this administration's carrying out the president's political retribution campaign."
