The Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal tore into President Donald Trump’s “vendetta”-fueled push to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in a scathing opinion piece published Thursday.
“His threat may be bluster, but it’s also self-destructive,” the Journal’s editorial board wrote after the president renewed the feud on Fox Business. “Readers may have noticed this is becoming a presidential habit.”
Powell’s tenure is set to end in a month, but the chairman vowed to stay until the Justice Department investigation into his congressional testimony about the Fed’s building renovation is dropped.
Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo he’ll “have to fire him, OK? If he’s not leaving on time.”
“I’ve held back firing him. I’ve wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial,” the president said.
