The Daily Beast
Washington Post Donald Trump’s loyalists at the Treasury leaned on the government’s money-printers to draw up a $250 note bearing his face, a new report has revealed. Behind the scheme are two of the president’s political appointees, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. They are U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, who once served in Georgia’s state senate and pushed Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, and Beach’s senior adviser, Mike Brown. Last year, the pair repeatedly pushed staff at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) to knock up Trump banknote prototypes, four of the agency’s employees told the Post—despite a law that only allows “deceased individuals” to appear on cash. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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