Donald Trump has doubled down on his extraordinary bid to fire a Federal Reserve governor over an unproven allegation, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested she was a “crook” despite admitting he didn’t know the facts of the case.

But Reserve Bank Governor Lisa Cook announced on Tuesday that she would file a lawsuit challenging the move, saying through her lawyer that the president was acting illegally and had no authority to remove her.

In his latest attack against the Central Bank, Trump took the unprecedented step this week of writing a termination letter to Cook, which he posted on social media, telling her she would be removed from her position “effective immediately.”

The move came after MAGA acolyte Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, accused C

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