Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) posted — and then deleted — what appeared at first glance Tuesday to be a resignation letter from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump’s nemesis of the past several months.
Trump has repeatedly argued that Powell should either lower interest rates across the country or resign. He has gone so far as to hint at — and then backtrack on — the idea that he may fire Powell himself.
The letter briefly shared by Lee, however, is clearly a fake, and Powell is not going anywhere immediately.
The formatting of the letter is strange, with line breaks at odd intervals. But most tellingly, the words around an official-looking blue seal stamped to the letter appear to read: “OEOD OF GOVERYAEB EIREBAL RESERVE SIEIVA.”
In other words, gibberish.
A spokesperson for the senator did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Trump appointed Powell as chair of the Fed back in 2017, although he has tried to distance himself from that decision in recent days.