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Jan 13, 2026

Fed Chair Powell Drops A DEVASTATING RESPONSE To Trump’s DOJ Intimidation

Donald Trump is now openly weaponizing the Justice Department to intimidate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, laying bare a MAGA power play where loyalty overrides law, interest rates become tools of retaliation, and even Fox News can’t fully paper over the authoritarian creep threatening America’s economic independence.

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The Watchlist with Jayar Jackson: January 13, 2026

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Donald Trump is now openly weaponizing the Justice Department to intimidate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, laying bare a MAGA power play where loyalty overrides law, interest rates become tools of retaliation, and even Fox News can’t fully paper over the authoritarian creep threatening America’s economic independence.

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As Trump lashes out at Jerome Powell and flirts with weaponizing the DOJ to bully the Federal Reserve, even Republican senators and right-wing media are admitting the quiet part out loud—this is what authoritarian power grabs look like when MAGA economics collapse and control matters more than democracy, markets, or the truth.

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Footage from Minneapolis shows ICE agents swarming civilians and escalating confrontations, then pivots to a pastor describing being handcuffed at gunpoint and mocked to see if he was “afraid yet,” exposing how Trump’s immigration crackdown pairs intimidation and humiliation with extremist-coded recruitment messaging being pushed from the top.

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A rambling Trump performance collapses in real time as he forgets his own $2,000 check promise, Fox and Fox Business rush to spin disastrous job numbers, and the MAGA economic fairy tale unravels into tariffs, lies, and recycled grifts that leave working Americans poorer while Republicans blame everyone but themselves.

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