Republican Sen. Mike Lee's misinformation problem goes from bad to worse

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Republican Sen. Mike Lee’s misinformation problem goes from bad to worse
The problem isn’t just that the Utah senator amplified obvious misinformation. The bigger problem is that Mike Lee keeps amplifying misinformation.

July 23, 2025, 9:43 AM EDT
By Steve Benen


(MSNBC) Donald Trump has made no effort to hide his desperate wish that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would resign, and according to some in far-right circles, the president got his wish on Tuesday, as a fake resignation letter from the Trump-appointed Fed chair made the rounds.

Most of those who fell for the obviously bogus letter were assorted activists, influencers and media personalities, but as The New Republic noted, they were joined by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.

Among other eyebrow-raising details, the letter includes an abundance of end-of-line hyphens, as well as punctuation errors ... and an awkward line break causing an apostrophe-s to appear alone at the beginning of a new line. Most egregiously, the words encircling the seal of the Federal Reserve System at the bottom of the letter are largely gibberish — ridden with the glitchy characters one often finds in AI-generated images containing text.

Whoever created the fake resignation letter didn’t invest a lot of time in making it appear authentic. The wording on the Federal Reserve seal included the words, “Elerebal Reserve Oedo of Goveryaeb,” whatever that means.

And yet, there was the senior GOP senator from the great state of Utah promoting the fake document via social media alongside text that read, “Powell’s out!” ...............(more)

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