Trump firing Powell would be a ‘very bad precedent to set’ — Pompliano

Date: 2025-04-19

Crypto entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano says that US President Donald Trump shouldn’t follow through on his recent threat to fire the head of the US Federal Reserve, saying it would set a dangerous precedent — especially considering the true motive behind it.“I do not believe that the President of the United States should come in and unilaterally fire the Fed President,” Pompliano said in a video posted on X on April 18.Firing over disagreement is a slippery slope, says PomplianoPompliano said, “Where you have a disagreement and then the firing, I think that’s not really the area that we want to go into.”“The idea of firing the Fed chairman is a very bad precedent to set this way.”It comes after Trump took to his social media platform Truth S...

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