{"id":1174,"date":"2026-01-12T01:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/justice-department-opens-investigation-into-federal-reserve-as-trump-ramps-up-campaign-against-central-bank\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:36:27","slug":"justice-department-opens-investigation-into-federal-reserve-as-trump-ramps-up-campaign-against-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/justice-department-opens-investigation-into-federal-reserve-as-trump-ramps-up-campaign-against-central-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice department opens investigation into Federal Reserve as Trump ramps up campaign against central bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed chair Jerome Powell hits back, accusing DoJ of threatening criminal charges because central bank defied Trump\u2019s demandsThe Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve, a significant escalation in Donald Trump\u2019s extraordinary attack on the US central bank.In a blistering statement on Sunday, Powell argued he had been threatened with criminal charges because the Fed had set interest rates \u201cbased on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed chair Jerome Powell hits back, accusing DoJ of threatening criminal charges because central bank defied Trump\u2019s demandsThe Department of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}