A fake letter designed to give the appearance that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was resigning was posted and later deleted on social media by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
CNBC reports the letter was addressed to “The President” and included strange text spacing. The letter also featured an unreasonable facsimile of the Fed’s seal that included non-English lettering.
Lee offered no comment upon deleting his social media posting, while Johnson admitted, “The Jerome Powell letter is fake. Please don’t share it. Sorry. Bad look. I still want Jerome Powell to resign really bad.” Neither Lee nor Johnson identified the source of the letter; Politico writer Ben Jacobs preserved the deleted posts (see below).
The fake letter follows unsubstantiated claims posted today on X by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte that Powell was cratering to the pressure being placed on him by the Trump administration.
“I believe Powell will be resigning soon, but today is not the day,” Pulte wrote on X, adding, “I hear Jerome Powell has hired a crisis PR firm.”
