Trump’s Justice Department Investigates Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The DOJ launches a criminal investigation of Powell. He responds on video.

Quartz reports Trump’s Department of Justice is investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a staggering escalation of President Donald Trump’s almost year-long campaign to strong-arm the central bank into dramatically lowering interest rates.

Powell released a video statement on Sunday evening confirming the investigation. He said the DOJ had served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas on Friday related to testimony that Powell delivered to the Senate Banking Committee in June, regarding ongoing renovations of the Fed’s aging headquarters in Washington.

Until now, Powell has labored to avoid a direct confrontation with the White House in its scorched-earth effort to pressure the Fed into cutting borrowing costs. He was blunt on Sunday in assessing what was behind the subpoena.

“Those are pretexts,” Powell said. “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.”

Powell has long defended the Fed’s handling of the renovation. Trump and other White House officials seized on cost overruns to build a case to oust Powell. The president visited the site last July in what quickly turned into a televised spectacle. At one point, Powell corrected Trump on the price tag of the project.

The four-year renovation of two century-old buildings within the Fed’s headquarters swelled past its original $1.9 billion cost to $2.5 billion due to a variety of factors, including the unexpected drainage of groundwater from the construction site and the necessity of complying with federal guidelines governing historic building upgrades.

Powell Blasts Trump

Please consider a Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Good evening.

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 the 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.

Thank you.

The gall of this narcissist moron running the country is staggering.

I am not a Fed apologist. I do not think the Fed should exist. But the one thing worse than a Fed panel setting rates is State fools (from either party) setting them.

Powel’s response was just about perfect, and delivered with dignity. It is the first Fed speech in years (if ever) that I cheered.

With Trump’s recent moronic behavior, I not only expect Republicans to lose the midterm elections, I expect a potential blowout.

MAGA will vote for this moron, but he is going to massively lose independents, Hispanics, and all the marginal voters who decided the last election.

Trump’s incompetent ICE actions, inflation, Venezuela and Greenland idiocy, and now this will seal the fate. The world will cheer and so will I.

Meet the Acting President of Venezuela

Anyone in favor of sending him and Vance there to be fulltime President and Vice President?

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Looks like my timing was perfect on that one.

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CJW
CJW
2 months ago

Obviously Trumped up charges!

Scooot
Scooot
2 months ago

Will the mid-terms still take place? Interested in people’s views, I’ve read a few comments lately doubting it. Not sure how they could be avoided but …..

Art
Art
2 months ago
Reply to  Scooot

Good question. It might be a future Mish article.

Peace
Peace
2 months ago

Latest Genocide in GAZA for 27 months now. Nobody is helping.
To stop genocide EVERT SOCIAL MEDIA are our weapons.
Repeat the following:

Every first Sunday on every month
March for FREE PALESTINE.

Don’t thumb up but repeat yourself on every social media.

Last edited 2 months ago by Peace
Feral Finster
Feral Finster
2 months ago

Found on internet:

Trump is a goldbug’s bestie.

Trump has acted as a kind of real world experiment. The hard-money, end-the-Fed crowd always raged against the Fed, but it turns out that the real threats to destroy the currency are politicians.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago

LBJ literally summoned the fed chair to his ranch and in a drunk rage pushed him up against the wall and slapped him around to lower rates while red blooded boys were dying in indochina. trump is a moron. biden back to raygun assholes too. get a grip kids. this evil empire has been crumbling with raging lunatics for decades. the people here who vote for D or R are the real lunatics. democracy works.

Jeff
Jeff
2 months ago

Guess Trump doesn’t know who he’s messing with. Powell could raise the short term rates 5 or more percent and tank the economy making sure the Republicans get drubbed in the midterms. Seriously though, there’s a simple legal method to remove Trump and Vance called impeachment and conviction. But the Republicans are more worried about holding their power than removing a clearly incompetent and dangerous administration.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  Jeff

the bankers would put a fatwa on powell.

Flingel Bunt
Flingel Bunt
2 months ago
Reply to  Jeff

The market will raise rates once it realizes how risk and return actually work. It has been subsidized since 2009–visible in any chart of Fed interest rates. A crack in derivatives is opening even as I type. If that $4 quadrillion dam breaks, it’s done.

Glory
Glory
2 months ago

Just when I think he can’t go any lower, now this outrageous threat to the independence of the Fed. Unbelievable. What’s next, we invade Greenland? Oh, he already said that he would.

HMK
HMK
2 months ago

What is wrong with that man, he is losing it. His staff should have a coup against him by decrying his undemocratic tactics. Where is the pushback from out congress?? Maybe they need to explore the law that allows removal of a president when he is mentally incompetent. I can’t believe that his cabinet and staff think what he is doing is rational or just.

Lefteris
Lefteris
2 months ago

That’s a shameful action.
What will actually matter in the elections is affordable rent, groceries and insurance, and whether society will feel optimistic or not.

Lawrence Bird
Lawrence Bird
2 months ago

Mish – I agree with you about Fed setting rates. But there is a place for the Fed in bank supervision and as an ultimate backstop when necessary to allow orderly closures.

Adam Tencent
Adam Tencent
2 months ago

The focus on trump in our culture is horrifying. What happened to congress? Where is the checks and balances? If one person can destabilize the country so easily, then the problem is our system, not a president.

Lawrence Bird
Lawrence Bird
2 months ago
Reply to  Adam Tencent

Well, it can be both. But you are right – when did 35% of the country decide that the North Korean / Red China / Stalinist USSR models of cults of personality was a good thing? I can place the start, or at least the turning point, in 1996 with the combination of Fox News and Newt Gingrich.

B.T.
B.T.
2 months ago
Reply to  Lawrence Bird

I’d probably go back further to the reaction to the court cases in 1971 (Green v. Coit and Green v. Connolly) that gave rise to the modern anti-abortion political movement. Seemingly unrelated, they were the flashpoint back then that created the Moral Majority, which later was co-opted by the Alt Right and Trumpism. The reaction to those cases is what inspired the Heritage foundation to try to consolidate support by joining anti-abortion catholic voices, anti-tax conservatives, and pro-segregationist evangelicals. Note that up until that point, the official evangelical position on abortion leaned heavily pro-choice. The Heritage Foundation was smart enough to see how you could meld those disparate voices into one movement.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  B.T.

those evangelicals had been silent since the scopes monkey trial. you are correct, abortion brought them out of the hollers. they even got huge swaths of roman catholics on board with the jihad against women’s right to have an abortion or not. these are all just kooky symptoms of crumbling evil empire.

Flavia
Flavia
2 months ago
Reply to  bmcc

True, lots of Catholics are Christian nationalists. Just like their ancestors in the Inquisition and the Crusades.
People never change.

Jon L
Jon L
2 months ago
Reply to  Adam Tencent

Great point. It would be nice to think that a party would try running on a message of cleaning up the system:

  • Getting rid of Gerrymandering
  • Limiting SuperPACs
  • Limiting donation sizes
  • Reducing the power of lobbyists
  • Stopping lawmakers from obtaining income beyond their salaries
  • Removing political control of justice

Surely this would be popular – but I don’t see any of this mentioned. The country seems hell-bent on a) money and b) “my side must win at all costs.”

Jon
Jon
2 months ago
Reply to  Adam Tencent

The problem with the system is the American “first past the line” voting system. It is a system designed for a small group to control the government. Example: Suppose you have a voting district with 51% Republicans and 49% Democrats. Republican wins and automatically 49% of the voters views aren’t represented. But let’s look at just at the Republicans: suppose there are 4 initial candidates, a libertarian, MAGA chick, Christian conservative, and a business conservative. The MAGA chick gets 30% of the vote and the rest get 23% each. So the new elected official, the MAGA chick, really just represents .30 x .51 percent of the electorate or 15%. The solution is to combine electoral regions and then send the top two (or 3) vote getters instead of just one.

Adam Tencent
Adam Tencent
2 months ago
Reply to  Jon

First past the post is a major problem.

Jon
Jon
2 months ago

Trump needs to lower interest rates so that inflation will jump. That will give him something to blame on Biden for the mid-terms.

MMchenry
MMchenry
2 months ago

Any Brnach of Gov messing with the Fed used to be – and should be – a sacrosanct non-starter. This is one of the most disturbing POLITICAL malpractice of my 65 yr life. Horribly bad precident. And sad too.

Truely Trump has lost it. We’ve got a Pathetic Leveraged Daily National Soap Opera now.

Albert
Albert
2 months ago

That can only mean: Goodbye to Fed independence. Hello to financial crash.

Anthony
Anthony
2 months ago

Anyone I think Trump and his minions have reached a new low, they manage to surprise.

it’s not possible to rationally deny thatTrump is a dictator willing to jail anyone who disagrees with him.

the hilarious thing is he now wants to support the Iranian protesters, meanwhile he hates US protesters to his policy and when a US citizen is killed he labels her a domestic terrorist.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  Anthony

Dementia and narcissism are a helluva combo.

EADOman
EADOman
2 months ago

The US is bordering on banana republic status.

limey
limey
2 months ago
Reply to  EADOman

Bordering? You crossed that frontier some months ago, dude.

Last edited 2 months ago by limey
El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  limey

It’s bananas all the way down.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago

I’ve already lived in a city and hood where r/e prices declined by 75% and one in three of all our neighbors lost their jobs and houses……………I’m gonna tell folks who never experienced this, it is best to concentrate the mind and face the reality of possibility of this in the near future.   The electronic currency and brokerage and bank accounts can be inflated or deflated away to even worse percentages of losses.  Has been the case in recent past empires and run of the mill banana republics.  GOD GOLD AND GUNS.   THE FIRST ITEM IS IN THE FICTION SECTION OF YOUR HOME LIBRARY 

randocalrissian
randocalrissian
2 months ago

Anyone who thinks for a moment that opposing Trump on this issue is TDS needs to take not only a good look in the mirror at their TWS, but also a good look at their moral code and fiber.

If you support this prosecution, you are inviting the vampires to sink their teeth in your neck.

Is love of one’s country sworn allegiance to its leader or its collective values? Can it be both when they don’t agree?

Jon L
Jon L
2 months ago

I think it is interesting that mention of TDS has significantly reduced as only a dwindling few people think that it is deranged to criticise him anymore.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago

all empires crumble. we are well over our ripe date. seen this in real time in Russia in 90s. good luck girls and boys. get a plan. have durable assets in multiple countries. and don’t believe the hooey coming out of your very evil imperial warmongering main stream media. if you want to survive financially in tact. good luck all.

MelvinRich
MelvinRich
2 months ago

The system is in failure mode. Neither party has the interests of the country. Bullying the fed is horrible. Politicians always want short term patches masquerading as solutions. An independent fed is essential; I don’t want the likes of Trump dictating fed policy.

IRISH
IRISH
2 months ago

trump must g arrest him for treason.

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  IRISH

‘irished’ english???

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago
Reply to  alx

I’ll fix it for you: Trump must go, arrest him for treason.

Derre, dat b Engrish…

limey
limey
2 months ago
Reply to  alx

Almost as poor as your attempts at written English. 🙂

Last edited 2 months ago by limey
randocalrissian
randocalrissian
2 months ago
Reply to  IRISH

IRISH you are a certified ignoramus

limey
limey
2 months ago

No, he just got his mucking words fuddled.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  IRISH

Send in Meal Team Six!

Art
Art
2 months ago
Reply to  El Trumpedo

Chairborne rangers. Lol

J_Schneider
J_Schneider
2 months ago

In EU we had Draghi’s bazooka 12 years ago, the US is going to have Trump’s bazooka in 2026 if Trump manages to push Powell away. Draghi lowered rates to zero to save Italy from bankruptcy, Trump is going to do the same with the US. It is not about FED, it is about financial survival of federal government. Don’t forget that he announced $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget and that his tariffs will likely be judged as illegal. DOGE was a flop, it is time to lower the rates to zero. 10% credit card ceiling is there to create pressure on FED. I wonder how many people undestand that 10% ceiling is going to stop flow of consumer credit and that will push the economy to recession. An elephant dancing in a China cupboard.

Doug78
Doug78
2 months ago

I believe Federal bureaucrats should have immunity from prosecution for supposed wrongdoings. We all know that they are selfless, diligent and hardworking. Their integrity, honesty and nonpartisanship are well-known and recognized by the American people as well as by foreign governments and their only goal is the well-being of the United States. I agree with Mish. It is absurd to think that any of them and especially Powell could ever have done anything wrong therefore an investigation is not necessary and a waste of money.

Democritus
Democritus
2 months ago
Reply to  Doug78

They cannot do anything wrong! They have been sent by God to do His work for His people after all. That’s what they said after the Great Recession, and why on earth would they lie about something so important?

Phil in CT
Phil in CT
2 months ago
Reply to  Doug78

Doug your breath smells like boot leather, are you ok

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  Phil in CT

Can the Heimlich maneuver dislodge a jackboot?

Doug78
Doug78
2 months ago
Reply to  Phil in CT

I wrote a satiric piece to test whether this blog is worth commenting in. I can see that 95% have the same view as Mish so there is little room for dialogue.

limey
limey
2 months ago
Reply to  Doug78

Did you forget an /s at the end of your praise?

Anthony
Anthony
2 months ago
Reply to  Doug78

give me a break. no one really believes Powell did anything wrong in relation to this. This is 100% transparently venal and retaliatory.

I mean, Trump is literally tearing down the WH to make it in his cheesy, gilded image and he got private donors to fund part of it as if funding a president’s vanity projects is anything other than a bribe.

Last edited 2 months ago by Anthony
Jon L
Jon L
2 months ago

These are historic figures for typical rennovations in the area:

New-build commercial offices (no security, no historic constraints):
$500–$900 per sq ft
Secure federal buildings / historic cores:
$1,500–$2,500+ per sq ft is common

The Fed comes in at $1,900-$2,000.

Also worth noting that the plans were put in place before Powell was put in place and signed off. Trump could have complained during his first term but didn’t. Stating the obvious – this has absolutely nothing to do with cost overruns.

randocalrissian
randocalrissian
2 months ago
Reply to  Jon L

has lots to do with a small peepee

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago

And an even smaller brain

john smith the third
john smith the third
2 months ago

What happened to the trillion dollar coin idea? I think that might be an easier way for Trump to get easy money than picking a probably losing fight with Jerome

Augustine
Augustine
2 months ago

Why do you hate the Venezuelans to inflict the Orange Joker and the Orange Harlequin on them?

+888
+888
2 months ago

At least for the senate, polymarket predicts the republican will keep the senate.

JeffD
JeffD
2 months ago

“MAGA will vote for this moron, but he is going to massively lose independents, Hispanics, and all the marginal voters”

Trump has about six months to cement in people’s minds that the words “Democrat” and “fraud” are synonymous. If he can do that, the Democrats won’t have a chance, assuming the US populace still abhors fraud. Unfortunately, I’m beginning to believe they now celebrate it.

I went to a 40 year high school reunion recently, and of the 18 people I talked to who were my closest friends, 16 were getting a large chunk of their business revenue from government programs, and for seven of the people, they were direct government employees, and hence 100% dependent on the largess of government. No one wants the fake job bureaucracy to cease, it seems, since their livelihood depends on it.

Last edited 2 months ago by JeffD
A D
A D
2 months ago
Reply to  JeffD

Raise taxes and the Democrats will just waste that revenue on more Birdbrain Biden-style spending like +$40 billion per year in student loan forgiveness handouts.

Trump has to at least slow the increase in annual deficits in order to reduce the debt to GDP ratio and to reduce debt service payments as a percentage of tax receipts.

My fingers are crossed, as I am reading the 2025 deficit at least is about the same as the 2024 deficit. I consider 2024 as not being an outlier such as COVID spending.

So 2025 will be the first year the deficit has not increased since 2001.

Tenacious D
Tenacious D
2 months ago
Reply to  A D

And what do you call a 60% increase in the Defense budget when we already spend more than the next 10 countries combined? Necessary?

Tollsforthee
Tollsforthee
2 months ago
Reply to  A D

How do you feel about $160B for ICE? Or $4T in tax breaks for billionaires?

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  JeffD

that is coast to coast. wall street is GSE. as are working class and upper middle class hoods. the MICC wired the empire this way. the people voted for it all. long live pax dumbfuckistan. who are we gonna bomb in 2026, kids? it’s jobs

Albert
Albert
2 months ago
Reply to  JeffD

“Assuming the US population still abhors fraud.“

Somehow I remember that the US population elected a convicted fraudster to be president.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  Albert

He made fraud accepted and common, just like Clinton did for blowies.

I think Clinton did us better.

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago
Reply to  Albert

Fraudster, convicted felon, and most likely a pedophile, also a very good christian according to most evangelicals. Yep he’s a MAGA hero of the finest kind.

BigBob
BigBob
2 months ago

In the not so distant future, Our Great Leader will direct his Air Force to start bombing American cities that he perceives are against him. MAGA will cheer this display of force and salute their king. No Republicans in Congress will murmur a word against this madman. Like Nero he will fiddle while Rome burns.

+888
+888
2 months ago
Reply to  BigBob

From someone who prised Bachar Al Assad. Why not doing the same as him be Ok?

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  BigBob

aye aye. a likely unfolding.

Casual Observer
Casual Observer
2 months ago

Demented Nation: Five Years of American Free Fall
The awful truth is we could have prevented it—and just didn’t.
Jim Stewartson
Jan 06, 2026
https://www.mind-war.com/p/demented-nation-five-years-of-american

Last edited 2 months ago by Casual Observer
pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago

Maybe the best part:

“For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure… are most suitable.”

—Hippocrates, Aphorisms

86/47 by any means necessary, 25th, impeach or God

Portlander
Portlander
2 months ago

What’s to stop him? He is our “unitary executive.”

He is surrounded by careerist fools who tell him daily he’s the greatest being on earth since Jesus.

So now he feels he is bound only by his own “morality”.

Therefore, as Commander in Chief, he can send troops to invade Minnesota and Hegseth will say “yessir!”

And Congress will make speeches.

And the media ratings will be fantastical!!!

bernanke_airdrop
bernanke_airdrop
2 months ago

Why are the renovations 2.5 billion dollars? That’s kind of crazy, you can build a couple of skyscrapers for that amount.

Casual Observer
Casual Observer
2 months ago

There is probably something underground where people could survive for decades after nuclear fallout. Building those types of things deep underground is more expensive than a skyscraper.

JeffD
JeffD
2 months ago

There is one great truism for contractors — how much it costs is proportional to how wealthy the customer is. The more money the customer has, the higher the group of contactors bid submissions will be. And no one has more money than The Fed.

Last edited 2 months ago by JeffD
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
2 months ago
Reply to  JeffD

“Is this (home or auto repair) being covered by insurance?”

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  JeffD

BINGO. life long r/e investor in 100 and 200 year old wrecks of houses we renovated over the past 40 years.

alx
alx
2 months ago

=e renovations 2.5 billion dollars?

and people got BATSHiIT CRAZY ABUT $ 3 BIL AID FOR Israel.per year

NOT a pip about $ 1.5 trln military !

Last edited 2 months ago by alx
bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  alx

israel is our useful idiots and colony in the sea of OUR oil.

abcd
abcd
2 months ago

This kind of thing, trying to replace the fed chair with someone who will lower rates so people dont even get a short term rate even with inflation, along with possibly underreporting inflation so that TIPS and i bond holders dont get fully compensated, plus inflation in general, is what happens when the US national debt gets too high, which was and is still being caused by both major parties overspending like crazy. So people should be aware of that when they go and vote, that the only party on the ballot for a balanced budget is Libertarian. If you vote R or D, you are voting for inflation. And Powell has been a terrible fed chair for monetizing the govts overspending (money printing) and suppressing mortgage and long term treasury rates, but that isnt why trump is trying to get rid of him. Trump wants to do the same bad monetary policy as powell, just even worse than powell. Trumps idea, to add yet another 200 billion to the debt to buy MBS, sucks. The problem with the housing market is high prices, not rates, and Trumps scheme, which is supported by nearly all the Republicans and Democrats, because they are nearly all debt mongers, is an attempt to keep prices high.

Neil
Neil
2 months ago
Reply to  abcd

I agree that spending wise there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. The difference is in the amount of damage each party is willing to do to internal institutions, allies and US democracy in general. And I believe that the current administration scores worst of all times on all of these.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  Neil

i’d invest in a history book. see ww2, great depression. 1970s. civil war era. and the original revolutionary currency went teats up.

KPStaufen
KPStaufen
2 months ago
Reply to  bmcc

Even Andrew Jackson, probably the best analog to Trump, acknowledged that, as President, he was constrained by the Constitution and bound to defend and protect it. Trump has jumped the shark this second term. He is actively daring the two other “coequal” branches of Government to check his power. On the international stage, he is completely unconstrained by treaties, alliances, and international institutions that the United States actually formed. He is literally destroying 100 years of blood, sweat, and diplomacy that the United States has invested to create a world in the image of our view of the rule of law and unalienable rights.

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago

Imagine the mayhem if Trump is impeached again, the tariffs are rejected by the Supreme Court and someone releases the unreacted Epstein files and Trump and a few of his inner circle are all over them.

As if what is going on is not crazy enough!

Gold has bumped through its all time record and hit $4,612. Silver is above $83.50 at the moment so as Mish says, confidence in the Fed is almost as stretched as confidence in Trump,

But to be clear, I have far more faith in the Fed than Trump. And yes, I have read The Creature From Jekyl Island.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

he’ll invade and go to war against CA etc…………if that happens.

Anthony
Anthony
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

this will just keep getting crazier. 3 more years of this insanity.

Rogerroger
Rogerroger
2 months ago

Seems all the trump drops seems to be on the weekends these days. Wonder if its so he can get ahead of the media using truth social. Etc.

Feral Finster
Feral Finster
2 months ago
Reply to  Rogerroger

Yes.

KPStaufen
KPStaufen
2 months ago

I just want to scream at my country, WAKE THE FUCK UP! The United States is being undermined from within. “THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.”

Either the majority of Trump voters are completely blind and clueless, or they actually want the nation weakened at home and abroad. Sadly, I am beginning to lean toward the latter.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  KPStaufen

There is an astonishing amount of stupid out there.

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago
Reply to  KPStaufen

Most trump voters hate America as they hate themselves for being such losers.

Pedro
Pedro
2 months ago
Reply to  KPStaufen

Exactly! We are allowing this to happen to ourselves. Americans are conflicted about what they know is right and their wallets/money.

Its time to do the right thing instead of being a bunch of spoiled entitled brats

Casual Observer
Casual Observer
2 months ago

The video of Powell looks AI generated.

Moi
Moi
2 months ago

“The gall of this narcissist moron running the country is staggering.”

I wouldn’t necessarily classify Trump as a narcissist but oh my goodness is he an egomaniac, in fact I would go further, he is the worst sort of egomaniac, he is a very thin skinned egomaniac. This is a good example, because the CEO of ExxonMobil has questions and concerns about Trumps Venezuelan Oil plans, Trump is now pouting and threatening to keep them out of Venezuela.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-inclined-keep-exxonmobil-venezuela-004509652.html

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago
Reply to  Moi

As the CEO of ExxonMobil snickers. trump is doing him a favor. If VZ is a success he can claim trump kept Exxon out, if it’s a failure (most likely) he will claim he was smart for not going in. win/win

njbr
njbr
2 months ago

Fascism or not?

Videos on Minneapolis forums/reddit of ICE going door-to-door in neighborhoods, pushing their way in, refusing to show warrants

Avery2
Avery2
2 months ago
Reply to  njbr

“Boston Strong!”

Last edited 2 months ago by Avery2
Jack
Jack
2 months ago
Reply to  njbr

Surprised nobody is shooting the intruders

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago
Reply to  njbr

They should be shot in the door way. Better yet dox them and shoot them as the leave their house.

alx
alx
2 months ago

well trump was better being pre occupied w/ russia russia russia in 1st term

he is unhinged. now

njbr
njbr
2 months ago

Picking winners and losers

Exxon says Venezuela “univestable”

Trump pissed:

President Trump said on Sunday that he is inclined to keep oil giant Exxon Mobil out of deals regarding Venezuela following the CEO’s skeptical response to future investment in the South American country.
 
“I’d probably be inclined to keep Exxon out,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to Washington, D.C. 

“I didn’t like their response. They’re playing too cute,” he added. 

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  njbr

Exxon ( Rockefeller fame) was around for 100+ years.

this shall pass

Michael
Michael
2 months ago
Reply to  njbr

Exxon back to Trump :

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago
Reply to  njbr

Excellent news for Exxon then. Why would anyone want to be associated with another Trump failure.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  njbr

They know Tillerson was right about him. Nothing to do now but wait out the stupid.

Feral Finster
Feral Finster
2 months ago
Reply to  El Trumpedo

Well, Tillerson was in the oil biz.

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago

25th Amendment time! But with a twist…

Remove Trump and Vance as well as Trumps entire band of merry sycophants!

Restore the legal teams at the Pentagon, SEC, DOJ.

Reverse every Tariff and Executive order Trump has ordered or signed.

Prosecute Trump for insurrection and sedition.

Release the unreacted Epstein files…

Any questions?

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

biden for 2028! and i meant it

Jojo
Jojo
2 months ago
Reply to  alx

Hunter?

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  Jojo

Hunter is even better.

he has been around.

======

apparently some people dont take jokes lightly!

sorry folks, USA is hopeless..

Tenacious D
Tenacious D
2 months ago
Reply to  alx

We’ve already got a President Camacho. Why not a hooker-banging crackhead who paints in his spare time? The leap isn’t that far.

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  Tenacious D

i like those paints.

$100 per i would buy

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  Jojo

I mean, we’ve seen his schlong, can we say the same of any other candidate?

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago
Reply to  alx

I’m a left of center Democrat and I have always believed Biden was a shill for the banks and credit card companies. Never voted for him, but voting for trump would have been criminal.

Avery2
Avery2
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

Yes. Who’s doing it?

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago
Reply to  Avery2

Therein lies the problem…

No mechanism that I know of exists to solve Project 2025’s subversion of our great nation.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

it’s an empire. the men in 1800s and early 1900s used to quite regularly use the proper term. we ain’t some little old nation.

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

There are mechanisms some are bolt action some are semi-auto and the really good ones are drones.

Rickmensworth
Rickmensworth
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

Perhaps a mandatory sanity check for all future presidents?

pokercat
pokercat
2 months ago
Reply to  Rickmensworth

Plus a MANDATORY full release of ALL medical and financial records at least 90 days prior to the election.

bmcc
bmcc
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

DID you hit the whiskey or cannabis old sport. seems fantastical thoughts. love ya. keep on spreading your wisdom

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago
Reply to  bmcc

Neither, reality is a tough taskmaster.

😉

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

Your plan lacks a trebuchet capable of launching cargo into orbit.

Sentient
Sentient
2 months ago

As gross as this Trump action is, I’m more upset about the upcoming regime change effort in Iran.

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  Sentient

why,?? mullahs are mor11ons

they ruined country!

even Russians / Putin said once to them = cut out bs talks about killing all je11ws==

they never listened!

they are toast.

Sentient
Sentient
2 months ago

The guy who wants a $500B increase in military spending pretends to care about a 1/2 Billion cost overrun.

Tenacious D
Tenacious D
2 months ago
Reply to  Sentient

And there is no way the military is going to be able to spend all that money in a year. Let alone ACCOUNT for it when audited. The hungry hippos named Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada, General Dynamics, Raytheon, etc., *and* their thousands of suppliers, don’t have the ability to deliver another $500B in products or services without major capital expenditures and hiring binges, which will take years to come online. Even if they say they can/will, their eyes are bigger than their stomachs.

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago
Reply to  Tenacious D

You can bet that ICE can spend it rounding up Americans that do not want to live under a fascist dictator?

Ondas Holdings sells killer drones for the American market and is totally connected to our military, Israel and its security techniques and network. They already know where your cellphone is and have your voiceprints… Palantir has run algorithms on everything you have said and knows your social network. Enemies of Trump? If the pattern is true, any one that is an actual activist may be eliminated.

Even MAGA may not be safe after the potential purges.

A whole new form of the SS has been born and needs lots of your children money to grow.

Frosty
Frosty
2 months ago
Reply to  Frosty

Gosh this stuff is good for a chuckle…

😉

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  Sentient

math from = Art of deal = author

got a $$$ billion?

/s

Last edited 2 months ago by alx
Mick
Mick
2 months ago

I’d favor sending Lindsey Graham to the Venezuelan capital. I hope when he shows up, the doors close and the music from Police Academy’s Blue Oyster begins to play.

El Trumpedo
El Trumpedo
2 months ago
Reply to  Mick

That’s not punishment for Lindsay.

cambeiu
cambeiu
2 months ago

Americans are about to get a hard lesson on what happens when the Executive interferes with monetary policy.

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  cambeiu

not really

deficit 2.3 trl$

cambeiu
cambeiu
2 months ago
Reply to  alx

Once the monetisation of the debt goes into overdrive, that is when the wheels really fall off. You guys are in for a ride.

alx
alx
2 months ago
Reply to  cambeiu

about 200 millions of pieces of weaponry on hands, legally

INFLATION should be LEAST PROBLEM!!

Jackula
Jackula
2 months ago

Uh oh! I’d better put some some stops on my positions tonite.

Tony Frank
Tony Frank
2 months ago

Shouldn’t it be the other way around as taco is already a convicted felon and continues to commit crimes on a daily basis.

Precambrian
Precambrian
2 months ago

The idea that Powell is personally running or even familiar with the details of a building renovation project is ridiculous. I don’t like Trump at all but I don’t hold him personally responsible for everything that happens in this country.

Oleg Grozny
Oleg Grozny
2 months ago

“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”

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