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COVID-19 Protesters Just Like Rosa Parks, Says White House Adviser Stephen Moore

The economic pundit repeatedly made the shocking comparison as right-wing protesters railed against social distancing measures meant to save lives.

The largely white protesters who oppose social distancing measures to protect the public from COVID-19 are like Rosa Parks, who waged a historic battle for racial equality, right-wing economic commentator and White House adviser Stephen Moore repeatedly insisted Friday.

“I call these people modern-day Rosa Parks. They are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties,” Moore told The Washington Post, in one of at least three instances of this astonishing comparison.

He also told CBS News: “It’s interesting to me that the right has become more the Rosa Parks of the world than the left is.” He said in a YouTube video quoted by The New York Times: “We need to be the Rosa Parks here, and protest against these government injustices.” Continue reading.

Trump says Moore withdraws from Fed consideration

President Trump said Thursday that conservative commentator Stephen Moore has decided to withdraw from consideration for the Federal Reserve Board amid staunch opposition from Senate Republicans.

“Steve Moore, a great pro-growth economist and a truly fine person, has decided to withdraw from the Fed process,” Trump tweeted.

Trump praised Moore for having “won the battle of ideas including Tax Cuts and deregulation” and said he asked him “to work with me toward future economic growth in our Country.”

View the complete May 2 article by Jordan Fabian and Sylvan Lane on The Hill website here.

Stephen Moore’s views are controversial. But polling shows they aren’t uncommon among Trump supporters.

Conservative political commentator Stephen Moore, President Trump’s pick for the Federal Reserve, is facing quite a bit of scrutiny for past statements about women, black Americans and others. Many Republican senators have expressed concern that Trump’s plan to nominate Moore is “on the edge of failure,” according to my colleagues.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress, said it was “very unlikely that I would support that person.” Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said in an interview Wednesday that Moore’s confirmation would be a “very heavy lift.”

Many Trump voters, however, agree with some of Moore’s most controversial comments.

View the complete May 2 article by Eugene Scott on The Washington Post  website here.

Trump Fed Board pick says opponents are ‘pulling a Kavanaugh against me’ as more of his controversial writings surface

Stephen Moore, President Trump’s planned nominee for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, on Tuesday said his opponents are “pulling a Kavanaugh against me” amid new revelations about columns in the 2000s in which he made derogatory statements about women, called for former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue (R) to be impeached and made a joking reference to AIDS.

Moore is also coming under scrutiny for saying in 2016 that it would be a “betrayal” for Trump to pick former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) to be secretary of state. Romney now represents Utah in the Senate, which would have to approve Moore’s nomination if he is to be confirmed to the position.

And a 2014 comment by Moore that Cincinnati and Cleveland are “armpits of America” drew a rebuke from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who wrote a letter to Moore on Tuesday calling the remarks “disqualifying” and demanding that he provide a list of other towns that he would describe as “armpits.”

View the complete April 23 article by Felicia Sonmez on The Washington Post website here.

Fed Pick Moore ‘Joked’ About AIDS, Mangled Corpses, And Abused Wife

Stephen Moore, Trump’s recent choice for the Federal Reserve Board, is unbelievably unqualified. He’s also a repugnant person who makes light of AIDS, “jokes” about threatening his kids with pictures of mangled bodies, and more.

Vetting is not the strong suit of the Trump administration, but Moore is an especially bad candidate. The most recent skeletons in his closet weren’t even terribly well-hidden. Back in 2003 and 2004, Moore wrote what he clearly thought were humorous columns for National Review Online. They were anything but.

In his 2003 column, a mock family Christmas letter, he “joked” that he toilet-trained his son by putting a photograph of Hillary Clinton in the toilet, resulting in his son achieving “perfect accuracy.”

View the complete April 17 article by Lisa Needham on the National Memo website here.

Watch: Trump’s pick for the Fed is caught flat-footed when a CNN host debunks his lies about backing the gold standard

CNN”s Erin Burnett caught Stephen Moore, recently picked by President Donald Trump to join the Federal Reserve, in a whopper of a lie Thursday night when she pressed him on his past advocacy for the gold standard.

When she raised his past advocacy for the idea, he pretended like it never happened.

“I don’t really think I’ve said anything much about the gold – I’m not in favor of a gold standard,” Moore said.

View the complete April 12 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.

Trump Fed Pick Stephen Moore Owes $75,000 to IRS, Court Document Says

Stephen Moore, whom President Donald Trump said he’ll nominate for a seat on the Federal Reserve, owes more than $75,000 in taxes and other penalties, according to the U.S. government.

A federal tax lien filed in the circuit court for Montgomery County, Maryland, where Moore owns a house, says that the government won a judgment against Moore for $75,328.80. The January 2018 filing said it was for unpaid taxes from the 2014 tax year and could accrue additional penalties and other costs.

An IRS spokesman said he was prohibited by law from commenting on the case. A White House spokesman declined to comment. Moore referred questions about the tax debt to his wife, Anne Carey.

Trump’s new Fed pick actually said that Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ was a road map to respond to the 2008 financial crisis

When reports broke that President Donald Trump had picked Stephen Moore to serve at the Federal Reserve, the backlash was swift and severe.

Moore is best known for being an economic analyst who is terrible at his job. Jonathan Chait called him a “famous idiot.” Economist Greg Makiw, one of the most venerated conservative economists, said he “does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job.” Catherine Rampell humiliated him in a debate about deflation.

But one point in Moore’s unimpressive history is a piece he wrote in early January of 2009, in the depths of the financial crisis that began in 2008.

View the complete March 26 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.

Fed Nominee Moore: Unemployment Insurance Is ‘Paid Vacation’

Trump on Friday announced that he nominated a conservative think tank fellow, who has criticized everything from paid sick leave to unemployment insurance, to a position on the Federal Reserve Board — a powerful position that has say over monetary policy in the United States.

The nominee, Stephen Moore, is a regular on Fox News, where he spouts crazy economic theories including that unemployment insurance amounts to “paid vacation” for job seekers.

“Extending unemployment benefits is actually bad for the economy,” Moore, a Fox News contributor, said on air in 2014. “It encourages people to stay out of the work force, it’s like a paid vacation for people and it’s actually a tax on employers.”

View the complete March 23 article by Emily Singer on the National Memo website here.

Trump says he’ll nominate Stephen Moore to Fed board

President Trump announced in a Friday tweet that he plans to nominate conservative economist and 2016 campaign adviser Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve board.

Our thought bubble, via Axios’ Courtenay Brown: If nominated and confirmed, Moore, who previously called Fed Chairman Jerome Powell incompetent, would fill one of the two vacancies on the Fed’s board of governors. Trump has not backed down on his unprecedented criticism of Powell, even though the Fed has indicated it will pause interest rate hikes — one of Trump’s gripes with the Fed.

Go deeper: Trump works to fill out the Fed board

View the March 22 post on the Axios website here.