Washington • The problem with putting Stephen Moore and Herman Cain on the Federal Reserve Board — as President Trump aims to do — isn’t merely that these lackeys have been wrong about nearly every economic claim they’ve ever made.
They're also rabid conspiracy theorists, at least when such theorizing has proved convenient to their partisan agenda.
That Trump would choose candidates with such proclivities should be no surprise. After all, in addition to the alternative-factualizing that the president is perhaps best known for (birtherism, crowd size, carcinogenic windmills), he has also regularly attacked government economic statistics, such as the unemployment rate, calling them phony, fake or cooked to make Democrats look good.