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Economic commentator and former Trump campaign adviser has a long history of making offensive comments about women

Donald Trump’s attempts to fill the vacancies on the Federal Reserve board are not going very well. On Monday, Herman Cain, a pizza mogul, withdrew from consideration, after facing widespread opposition from senators worried about his political activism and history of sexual harassment accusations. Cain, for his part, said he had decided not to proceed because the $183,100 salary would be a big pay cut. The poor guy would probably have to dip into his savings to survive.

Now that Cain is out of the picture, the focus has turned to Stephen Moore, another of Trump’s picks for the job. CNN dug up some of Moore’s old columns and, in news that will surprise nobody, it turns out the economic commentator and former Trump campaign adviser, has a long history of making misogynistic statements.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2GBhP4U