President Donald Trump has chosen former Federal Reserve Board Governor Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the central bank.

“I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,” Trump said on TruthSocial. “On top of everything else, he is ‘central casting,’ and he will never let you down.”

The president has previously said that he expects the next Fed chair to lower interest rates.

Warsh will succeed current chair Jerome Powell, who is serving until May, when his term expires. Powell is under investigation by Trump’s Justice Department for alleged false statements about renovations to the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., that have increased in cost to $2.5 billion.

Trump was reportedly choosing between Warsh, Fed Governor Chris Waller, BlackRock Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income Rick Rieder, and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.

Warsh is the Shepard family distinguished visiting fellow in economics at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a partner of Stanley Druckenmiller at Duquesne Family Office LLC.

Following the 2009 financial crisis, Warsh was skeptical of cutting rates. At the November 2010 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Warsh expressed concerns about the Fed’s plan to stimulate the economy by lowering long-term interest rates through additional asset purchases.

But more recently, Warsh has criticized Powell for being too hesitant to lower interest rates. He told Fox Business’ “Kudlow” program in July that he had “some sympathy” for Trump being frustrated with how Powell is handling interest rates.

“Economic growth in the U.S. is poised to boom, but it’s being held down by bad economic policies coming from the central bank, bad supervision policies, bad monetary policies, and a very confusing set of standards as we’ve gone from last year to this year,” Warsh said.

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Federal agents arrested former CNN host Don Lemon Thursday night in Los Angeles, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, announced Friday morning.

“Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards,” Lowell wrote in a statement posted to Lemon’s show on YouTube.

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” Lowell added. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the arrest.

The Justice Department initially sought charges for Lemon, among others, for violating the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act earlier this month when he entered Cities Church in St. Paul amid an invasion of the service.

The Klan Act criminalizes the deprivation of rights, and the Justice Department has claimed the church invaders deprived worshippers of their First Amendment right to religious exercise. The FACE Act protects access to houses of worship.

A federal magistrate judge, however, refused to sign a warrant for Lemon’s arrest. The Justice Department appealed that decision, but the court noted that prosecutors could improve the filing before presenting it to the same judge, or present the case to a grand jury to seek an indictment.

The Justice Department withdrew the appeal earlier this week, and it seems prosecutors found another way to bring the case.

First Amendment Defense?

Lemon has claimed that he went to Cities Church merely to cover the agitation as a journalist, and did not intend to violate anyone’s rights.

Lowell faulted the Justice Department for pursuing Lemon, rather than the federal agents who shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37, amid the surge of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis.

“Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case,” Lowell wrote. “This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”

Renee Carlson, who represents Cities Church as general counsel for True North Counsel, had highlighted a previous statement suggesting that, even if Lemon avoids all criminal liability, he may face civil liability.

“The First Amendment does not allow premeditated plots or coordinated actions to violate the sanctity of a sanctuary, disrupt worship, and intimidate small children,” Carlson said in a previous statement she highlighted for The Daily Signal. “There is no ‘press pass’ to invade a sanctuary or to conspire to interrupt religious services.”

The Church Invasion

Between 30 and 40 anti-ICE agitators interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, a non-denominational Christian church, and shouted, “Justice for Renee Good!” as they surrounded members of the congregation. 

Videos of the incident show the pastor and others repeatedly asking the agitators to leave, and the agitators chanting, “Who shut this down? We shut this down!”

According to the charging document, a member of the congregation said worshippers were “terrorized, our children were weeping.” One woman broke her arm. Agitators blocked about 50 members of the congregation from exiting, making it “nearly impossible for parishioners to get out and leave.”

The document also mentions that agitators prevented congregants from getting to their children, and one of the agitators reportedly told young children, “Do you know your parents are Nazis, they’re going to burn in hell?”

After the church invasion, Lemon attacked the “type of Christianity” practiced by Cities Church, claiming that the church has an “entitlement” that “comes from white supremacy.”

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1. “I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was going to be a strong suit of mine.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2019

b. President Barack Obama, 2012

2. “But, let me tell you, we can build a fence 40 stories high—unless you change the dynamic in Mexico and—and you will not like this, and—punish American employers who knowingly violate the law when, in fact, they hire illegals. Unless you do those two things, all the rest is window dressing.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2017

b. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., 2006

3. “Today, I will issue a national security memorandum directing every Federal department and agency to do even more to stop the flow of narcotics—including fentanyl—into our country. It will increase intelligence collection on traffickers’ evolving tactics to smuggle narcotics into our country. And it will help our law enforcement personnel seize more deadly drugs before they reach our communities.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2025

b. President Joe Biden, 2024

4. “The United States and the world faced a choice. [The dictator] declared he would show ‘no mercy’ to his own people. He compared them to rats and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we have seen him hang civilians in the streets and kill over a thousand people in a single day. It was not in our national interest to let that [massacre] happen. I refused to let that happen.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2026, about Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro

b. President Barack Obama, 2011, about Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi

5. “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2025

b. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 2005

6. “Real reform means stronger border security … putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2026

b. President Barack Obama, 2013

7. “Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. … People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the U.S. legally … Until the American people are convinced that we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress on dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants who are here now … When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combatting illegal immigration. If you don’t think it’s illegal, you’re not going to say it. I think it is illegal and wrong.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2017

b. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., 2009

8. “Because we do need to address the issue of immigration and the challenge we have of undocumented people in our country. We certainly don’t want any more coming in.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2019

b. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., 2008

9. “All Americans … are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. … We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2020

b. President Bill Clinton, 1995

10. “I think we can enforce our borders. I think we should enforce our borders.”

a. President Donald Trump, 2018

b. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., 1994

11. “If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn’t enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that. Right? … If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship … ”

a. President Donald Trump, 2017

b. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., 1993

12. “A biometric-based employment verification system with tough enforcement and auditing is necessary to significantly diminish the job magnet that attracts illegal aliens to the United States … ”

a. President Donald Trump, 2020

b. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., 2009

Hint: If it’s not too late, consider betting on “b.”

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