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| Pirro Fires Back: Fed Probe 'Totally Avoidable' If Powell Had Responded |
| 2026-01-14 |
| [RedState] Things have been tense between President Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell for some time now, and it looks like that tension isn't going away any time soon. On Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro took to her official X account to claim that the current Justice Department inquiry into the Federal Reserve and its Chair, Jerome Powell, didn't have to happen, and wouldn't have, had only the Fed "...responded to our outreach." The post continues: The word "indictment" has come out of Mr. Powell’s mouth, no one else’s. None of this would have happened if they had just responded to our outreach. This office makes decisions based on the merits, nothing more and nothing less. We agree with the chairman of the Federal Reserve that no one is above the law, and that is why we expect his full cooperation. That's the way these things should work, of course; the Department of Justice, while under the direction of the executive branch, by necessity maintains a certain level of autonomy. As far as the origins of this imbroglio, a story on Tuesday at The Hill has some details: Related: Jerome Powell 01/13/2026 Federal Reserve ‘ignored' US attorney's office inquiries into Powell's congressional testimony ‘on multiple occasions': Pirro Jerome Powell 01/12/2026 Powell Says Justice Department Served Fed With Subpoenas Jerome Powell 11/03/2025 US Treasury Department has announced a recession in several sectors of the economy |
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