{"id":3134,"date":"2026-01-14T02:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2026\/01\/trumps-doj-legal-threats-aim-to-intimidate-the-federal-reserve\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:42:49","slug":"trumps-doj-legal-threats-aim-to-intimidate-the-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s DOJ Legal Threats Aim to Intimidate the Federal Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This evening, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell released a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/federalreserve\/status\/2010510130970849338\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">video statement<\/a> revealing that Trump\u2019s Department of Justice issued grand jury subpoenas to the Federal Reserve \u201cthreatening a criminal indictment\u201d related to his testimony to the Senate Banking Committee over the summer. In the message, Chair Powell said he would refuse to be intimidated and would \u201cstand firm in the face of threats.\u201d In response, <strong>Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTonight, Jerome Powell called out the Trump administration in a bold defense of the rule of law. The Federal Reserve decisions should not be subject to intimidation and bullying by Trump loyalist prosecutors.The Department of Justice should serve the rule of law, not the vindictive instincts of an authoritarian president. And it should never misuse its criminal enforcement powers to pursue pretextual prosecutions against the president\u2019s political opponents or those who show a modicum of independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell released a video statement revealing that Trump\u2019s Department of Justice issued grand jury subpoenas to the Federal Reserve \u201cthreatening a criminal indictment\u201d related to his testimony to the Senate Banking Committee over the summer. In the message, Chair Powell said he would refuse to be intimidated and would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}