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President Donald Trump is ramping up his attacks on the Wall Street Journal — two days after suing them over an article in which the Journal reported that Trump wrote a tawdry letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.

In a post to Truth Social on Sunday, Trump blasted the Journal for a story in which they reported that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to talk the president out of firing Fed chair Jerome Powell.

“Bessent said firing Powell was unnecessary because the economy is doing well and markets have responded positively to the president’s policies, according to one of the people familiar with the matter,” the Journal story said. “Bessent also reminded Trump that Fed officials have signaled they could cut rates twice before year’s end, this person said.”

Trump took umbrage with the notion that Bessent somehow had to talk the president out of firing Powell.

“The Wall Street Journal ran a typically untruthful story today by saying that Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, explained to me that firing Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell,

the Worst Federal Reserve Chairman in History, would be bad for the Market,” Trump wrote. “Nobody had to explain that to me. I know better than anybody what’s good for the Market, and what’s good for the U.S.A. If it weren’t for me, the Market wouldn’t be at Record Highs right now, it probably would have CRASHED! So, get your information CORRECT. People don’t explain to me, I explain to them!”

Speaking in the Oval Office Wednesday, Trump said he would not fire Powell — whom he appointed to the job in 2017.

Trump sued the Journal, NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch, and various other executives and reporters connected to the Journal’s Epstein story in Federal Court in Miami on Friday.

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