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Famed economist Paul Krugman went after Donald Trump over his attempt to fire US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook , who has vowed to remain in the post and is planning to file a lawsuit over the president’s move.

“This is completely insane,” said Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in an interview with CNN ’s Jake Tapper .

Krugman stressed that there’s “no evidence” that would warrant Trump’s firing efforts, which the president has tied to allegations that Cook — who was appointed to the post by Joe Biden in 2022 — committed mortgage fraud.

Cook has contended that she hasn’t been charged or convicted of any wrongdoing.

In a post to his Substack newsletter on Tuesday, Krugman warned that if Federal Reserv

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