Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who also served as chair of the Federal Reserve, ripped the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into her successor, Jerome Powell, on Thursday as a “disturbing” attack on the Fed’s independence. “I think what President Trump is doing is unprecedented, and the most recent and most disturbing, in a way,…
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Yellen calls Trump’s Powell investigation ‘most disturbing’
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Originally reported by The Hill
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