Trump wants to extend his 'influence' to Federal Reserve Banks

A couple of items crossing news services:

• Trump is weighing options to extend influence to Fed banks - Bloomberg with this
• (ie. Trump reviewing options for exerting more influence over the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional banks)
• Trump has told advisers that he wants to move quickly to announce a nominee to replace Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors -Wall Street Journal with this
  • Trump is considering Stephen Miran and David Malpass as a replacement for Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board (via WSJ also)

ICYMI, the context for all this is Trump's attempts to fir Federal Reserve Governor Cook:

• investingLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: Trump moves to fire Cook, gold jumps

Cook is giving Trump the middle finger:

• Fed's Cook says will not resign and Trump has no authority to fire her
• Fed Spokesperson: Federal Reserve Act gives the president the power to remove "for cause"