Trump handed top foe 'single greatest gift' with 'astoundingly foolish' blunder: expert

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is staring down a potential criminal indictment for what Slate legal analyst Marc Joseph Stern called Monday a "made-up crime," part of Trump's audacious power grab to force the central bank into submission.

And it's all but assured to come back to haunt him.

The Trump administration hit the Fed with grand-jury subpoenas on Friday, launching a criminal investigation into allegations that Powell lied to Congress about building renovations. The allegations are baseless...