Lisa Cook’s Lawyer Questions Fairness of Trump-Backed Hearing as President Calls Her an ‘Automatic No Vote’
A lawyer for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has accused the White House of setting up a biased process to justify President Donald Trump’s latest push to remove her, escalating a fight that has already raised alarms about political interference at the central bank. Trump, meanwhile, has publicly dismissed Cook as an “automatic no vote,” sharpening concerns that the dispute is as much about control of monetary policy as it is about the underlying allegations.
