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Lisa Cook Takes Trump to Court Over His Fed Power Grab
A Federal Reserve governor sued Trump after he tried to fire her, turning his latest attack on central-bank independence into an immediate legal and political mess.
Edition · August 28, 2025
The Daily Fuckup — August 28, 2025
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Closing take
The common denominator here is not ideology; it’s compulsion. Trump keeps acting as if every constraint is an insult, every independent actor is a traitor, and every legal boundary is just a suggestion waiting to be ignored. That works on a rally stage. It looks a lot worse when it turns into lawsuits, institutional resistance, and a growing record of overreach that judges and markets are left to clean up.
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