Fight back against Trump and he will blink
The shortest sentence in the Bible is “Jesus wept.” The shortest sentence to describe the president last week is “Trump blinked.”
“After weeks of bluster and escalation, President Trump blinked. Then he blinked again. And again,” David Sanger wrote in the New York Times.
First, Trump dialed back his threat to fire the Federal Reserve chairman, Jay Powell, whom he himself nominated in 2017. Powell has a little over a year to go on his appointed term.
What caused this turnabout was not the significant legal question over whether Trump has the authority to fire Powell. The switch was mandated by…
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5275625-fight-back-against-trump-and-he-will-blink/