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Trump's Fed pick defends record

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick for the Federal Reserve Board says he regrets past controversial articles he’s written about women and urged critics to focus on his economic record.

Stephen Moore says the articles were meant as humor columns, but “some weren’t funny, so I am apologetic.”

He calls the criticism a “smear campaign.”

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