Federal Reserve Criminal Investigstion

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

Jerome doesn't look too confident these days. I wonder why.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-launches-criminal-investigation-fed-chair-jerome-powell/story?id=129114228

Also don't forget this hilarious moment. Thanks Trump

https://x.com/i/status/2010506242448310747

[Ron_Artest 2,733]

More banana Republic behavior from a corrupt immature piece of sh1t.

Powell is done in May.  All Donpedo has to do is wait 6 months and he'll get his guy and he'll have much more power to set rates.

But no he has to do go after his political enemies.  Markets don't like this.  Wall St doesn't like this.

This demented psycho is having one hell of a year so far.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

5 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

More banana Republic behavior from a corrupt immature piece of sh1t.

Powell is done in May.  All Donpedo has to do is wait 6 months and he'll get his guy and he'll have much more power to set rates.

But no he has to do go after his political enemies.  Markets don't like this.  Wall St doesn't like this.

This demented psycho is having one hell of a year so far.

The Federal Reserve shouldn't even exist. For Don's next trick, he is going to get the liberals to defend the Federal Reserve.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

 

[Ron_Artest 2,733]

1 minute ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

The Federal Reserve shouldn't even exist. For Don's next trick, he is going to get the liberals to defend the Federal Reserve.

Donpedo has no problem with the fed as long as they do whatever he wants.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

19 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Donpedo has no problem with the fed as long as they do whatever he wants.

Did you see how much the fed went over budget for their buildings? Seems like something is off with those numbers. Powell had no problem helping Biden with interest rates.

[Ron_Artest 2,733]

7 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Did you see how much the fed went over budget for their buildings? Seems like something is off with those numbers. Powell had no problem helping Biden with interest rates.

Oh the construction budget overrun, please.  Donpedo spent over $100m playing golf last year.

Powell never helped Biden with rates, powell did what he thought was best to balance inflation and growth as he is supposed to.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

58 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Oh the construction budget overrun, please.  Donpedo spent over $100m playing golf last year.

Powell never helped Biden with rates, powell did what he thought was best to balance inflation and growth as he is supposed to.

Ok. You will see. Have fun. You're going to need all the cope you can muster pretty soon.

[MDC 8,241]

Nobody on earth believes there’s anything to this except Trump harassing Powell because he’s mad the Fed won’t lower interest  rates.

[edjr 7,099]

Investigation

[HellToupee 2,372]

The moment Powell was caught like a somali daycare scammer. Two sides of a coin ripping off taxpayers 

 

 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

2 hours ago, HellToupee said:

The moment Powell was caught like a somali daycare scammer. Two sides of a coin ripping off taxpayers 

 

 

Brutal reaction on his part. A deer in headlights. Gulp.

[thegeneral 3,819]

If anyone knows building cost overages it’s Donald. 

He would juts stiff his contractors however.

 

[HellToupee 2,372]

4 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

If anyone knows building cost overages it’s Donald. 

He would juts stiff his contractors however.

 

Better than the taxpayers

[thegeneral 3,819]

1 minute ago, HellToupee said:

Better than the taxpayers

Can you do the border fence that Mexico was paying for?

[seafoam1 3,571]

19 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

If anyone knows building cost overages it’s Donald. 

He would juts stiff his contractors however.

 

You are so hurt. 

Three more years grandma. 

[seafoam1 3,571]

[Ron_Artest 2,733]

Funny, the cost of Donpedo's ballroom went up $200M and they didn't even start building it.

But sure Powell is under investigation.

[thegeneral 3,819]

Peefoam peefoaming jt up!

[seafoam1 3,571]

Just now, Ron_Artest said:

Funny, the cost of Donpedo's ballroom went up $200M and they didn't even start building it.

But sure Powell is under investigation.

 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

26 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Funny, the cost of Donpedo's ballroom went up $200M and they didn't even start building it.

But sure Powell is under investigation.

Is the money going toward the project being diverted to something else? No.

Is the extra money going toward the fed buildings being diverted? Maybe. The Pentagon has failed how many audits? How many trillions have vanished without a trace, yet you think the fed is above diverting funds?

[thegeneral 3,819]

Donald says he has nothing to do with this investigation.

 

[dogcows 1,425]

People supporting this are basically cheering for a recession to happen. If the Fed loses its independence, the markets could collapse.

[seafoam1 3,571]

Just now, thegeneral said:

Donald says he has nothing to do with this investigation.

 

Thegenital claims he knows what's going on.

[MDC 8,241]

From the radical leftist National Review:

The Trump Administration’s Lawfare Will Destroy More Than Just Itself

Jeffrey BleharJanuary 12, 2026 8:59 AM

Left: President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., November 7, 2025. Right Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference at the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., December 10, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

The cost of the politics of this era will be felt long after Trump is gone.

A ny reader of American political and economic news is likely already familiar with the long-simmering tensions between Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump: Trump wants lowered interest rates and “loose money”; Powell (as well as nearly every single economist in America, including the vast majority of conservative economists) feels otherwise after the runaway inflation of the Biden era.

The Fed’s official target is 2 percent inflation, as opposed to its long-elevated levels. We’re nowhere near that right now, in large part because of Trump’s wholly self-generated global tariff regime, which has helped raise prices on virtually everything except gasoline in the short term. Trump demands a political Band-Aid to cover up the self-inflicted wound; Powell serves the nation, and not Trump’s immediate political desires.

With that understanding — and with the understanding that in the Trump Era we live in an age seemingly bereft of political norms, or anything except the will to exercise raw power — I was despairingly depressed but strangely unsurprised when Powell made a stunning announcement late last night:

On Friday the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. That testimony concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings. I have deep respect for the rule of law, and for accountability in our democracy.

No one, certainly not the chair of the Federal Reserve, is above the law. But this unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration’s threats and ongoing pressure. This new threat is not about my testimony last June, or about the renovation of Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress’s oversight role; the Fed through testimony and other public disclosures made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts.

The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president. This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.

I have served at the Federal Reserve under four administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike. In every case, I have carried out my duties without political fear or favor, focused solely on our mandate of price stability and maximum employment. Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats. I will continue to do the job the Senate confirmed me to do, with integrity and a commitment to serving the American people.

The statement speaks for itself. But I will be even blunter: What the Trump administration is doing here is pure thuggery, lawfare of the most shameless and self-disgracing sort. What defense does MAGA wish to offer for Trump threatening to indict the chairman of the Fed on fake charges because he won’t cut interest rates like Trump demands? Trump cannot legally remove Powell from his position except “for cause,” and so here he is, directing his Justice Department to manufacture a “cause” he can use to threaten Powell. I can hear the constant refrain of online Trump supporters ringing in my ears: “I voted for this.” Did you, really? Did you vote for this?

Let us pause also to note the hilarity (seemingly almost intentional, as if to emphasize the near-Shakespearean insolence of office) of Trump threatening to indict Powell over purportedly mishandling the “renovations of historic buildings.” Donald Trump literally just demolished the East Wing without any sort of review, and then illegally slapped his name on the Kennedy Center to end the year. And bragged about how nobody could stop him from doing it! Does the administration see this irony? Maybe Trump does not, but those surrounding him surely do — and I’m halfway convinced that this aspect of things is an “intentional flex,” what they enjoy about their current amoral exercise of power more than anything else. We can do whatever we want, use any tool we wish, because we’re in charge now. (This power-tripping attitude comes through with crystalline purity in the public rhetoric of Trump’s most prominent underlings, such as Stephen Miller.)

It’s frightening to see a methodology shaping up in the Trump DOJ’s nakedly political indictments. This is now the second time they have moved against a disliked political figure by sifting through random Senate testimony to find something they can hang a flimsy indictment on. It is precisely the brand of injustice we all learned to revile from the Stalinist era: “Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.” The fact that all this pressure is so shamelessly out in the open — and greeted with distractable indifference from the media and Trump’s increasingly coarsened supporters — feels like a degradation of American politics, and a quietly slow-rolling, endlessly accumulating civic and social tragedy. The cost of the politics of this era will be felt long after Trump is gone. I fear we will never get the poison fully out of our blood.

So I invite all who disagree with me: Defend this! Shift your ground to the cheap and temporary rationalizations of politics instead of the arguments of law and ethics. Tear down yet another piece of what you believe to be the mere scaffolding of our Republic, only to discover that you’re removing load-bearing pillars. Defend this, and don’t be surprised when suddenly a firm structure no longer bears up under the shocks and stresses.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,218]

1 hour ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Brutal reaction on his part. A deer in headlights. Gulp.

I voted for that. 3 billion for an office building? Build a jail cell in there too and put Powell in it. GFY

[thegeneral 3,819]

9 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I voted for that. 3 billion for an office building? Build a jail cell in there too and put Powell in it. GFY

It’s 3 office buildings. One of which the renovations began during Trump’s first term and was finished awhile ago.

Let’s see how Trump’s ghey ballroom finishes up to get an idea of how much building costs inflate when dealing construction on a historic building in DC. 

[Ron_Artest 2,733]

14 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I voted for that. 3 billion for an office building? Build a jail cell in there too and put Powell in it. GFY

Funny because Trump approved Powell and this project during his first term.  I bet you didn't know that.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,218]

2 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

It’s 3 office buildings. One of which the renovations began during Trump’s first term and was finished awhile ago.

Let’s see how Trump’s ghey ballroom finishes up to get an idea of how much building costs inflate when dealing construction on a historic building in DC. 

Look at this. Rooting for the kingdom to have a new palace. Doing the people’s work. That’s why you get called a cuck. 

[thegeneral 3,819]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Look at this. Rooting for the kingdom to have a new palace. Doing the people’s work. That’s why you get called a cuck. 

I was correcting your inaccurate statement.

[Tree of Knowledge 2,299]

53 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Donald says he has nothing to do with this investigation.

 

Just like Biden knew nothing about the Mar-a-Lago panty raid.  

[Hardcore troubadour 16,218]

9 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Funny because Trump approved Powell and this project during his first term.  I bet you didn't know that.

I bet I know a half truth when I see it. And considering the source, I’m 100 pct positive. 

[thegeneral 3,819]

19 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

Just like Biden knew nothing about the Mar-a-Lago panty raid.  

I’d believe that way more than this. Don uses the DoJ like his personal hit force

[Tree of Knowledge 2,299]

5 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

I’d believe that way more than this. Don uses the DoJ like his personal hit force

Is he arresting parents at PTA meetings, people touring the Capitol, or grandmas that are against abortion? 

[Hardcore troubadour 16,218]

2 hours ago, thegeneral said:

If anyone knows building cost overages it’s Donald. 

He would juts stiff his contractors however.

 

Really? Any examples? 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,542]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I voted for that. 3 billion for an office building? Build a jail cell in there too and put Powell in it. GFY

Brutal reaction on Powell's part, to clarify.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,218]

3 billion for three office buildings? Look at the serfs rooting for their betters. 

[thegeneral 3,819]

7 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

3 billion for three office buildings? Look at the serfs rooting for their betters. 

The alternative is let them fall apart?

For perspective the Big Ghey Ballroom is proposed to be about 90k square feet. Who knows what it costs since it’s a big hole at the moment but I think it’s estimated at like 350 mil. 

These FED buildings are like 800k square feet.

[dogcows 1,425]

1 minute ago, thegeneral said:

The alternative is let them fall apart?

For perspective the Big Ghey Ballroom is proposed to be about 90k square feet. Who knows what it costs since it’s a big hole at the moment but I think it’s estimated at like 350 mil. 

These FED buildings are like 800k square feet.

Trump supposedly knows real estate but doesn’t seem to know cost overruns happen 99% of the time.

[thegeneral 3,819]

1 minute ago, dogcows said:

Trump supposedly knows real estate but doesn’t seem to know cost overruns happen 99% of the time.

He knows he just wants to fock with Powell because he’s a man baby.