Trump and Powell clash on camera over Federal Reserve renovation cost – US politics live

President and Fed chair disagree on renovation cost as Trump visits central bank’s historic headquarters in Washington, DCIn today’s episode of Today in Focus, my colleague and Guardian Washington DC bureau chief David Smith reports on the Donald Trump’s troubles over the Jeffrey Epstein case, and how the president risks alienating his own base.Trump has peddled many conspiracy theories in his time. From the baseless smear that Barack Obama was not a US citizen, to the claim that Trump did not lose the 2020 election, to ones even more far-fetched than that. Continue reading...

Trump and Powell clash on camera over Federal Reserve renovation cost – US politics live

President and Fed chair disagree on renovation cost as Trump visits central bank’s historic headquarters in Washington, DC

In today’s episode of Today in Focus, my colleague and Guardian Washington DC bureau chief David Smith reports on the Donald Trump’s troubles over the Jeffrey Epstein case, and how the president risks alienating his own base.

Trump has peddled many conspiracy theories in his time. From the baseless smear that Barack Obama was not a US citizen, to the claim that Trump did not lose the 2020 election, to ones even more far-fetched than that.

Continue reading...