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By Dropping Her Criminal Probe of Jerome Powell, Jeanine Pirro Confirms Its Political Motivation

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By Dropping Her Criminal Probe of Jerome Powell, Jeanine Pirro Confirms Its Political Motivation Even Republican critics of the Federal Reserve chairman's performance rejected the notion that he had broken the law by lying about the renovation of the central bank's headquarters. "This investigation continues," Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, declared last Wednesday, ...
The abrupt collapse of Pirro’s investigation into Jerome Powell reveals a troubling pattern of institutional weaponization, where legal processes are repurposed as tools of political pressure. The strongest version of this narrative—advanced by Pirro and implicitly supported by Trump’s rhetoric—frames Powell as a dishonest actor whose testimony warranted criminal scrutiny. Yet the facts undermine this claim: Republican senators, even those critical of Powell’s monetary policy, dismissed the alle...