{"id":17696,"date":"2026-01-14T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-slams-powell-amid-federal-probe-either-corrupt-or-incompetent\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:22:11","slug":"trump-slams-powell-amid-federal-probe-either-corrupt-or-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-slams-powell-amid-federal-probe-either-corrupt-or-incompetent\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams Powell amid federal probe: &#8216;Either corrupt or incompetent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell amid a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the central bank&rsquo;s ongoing renovations. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s either corrupt or incompetent,&rdquo; Trump told CBS News&rsquo;s Tony Dokoupil, referring to the price tag and time frame of the project, during an interview that aired Tuesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5687769-trump-slams-powell-amid-federal-probe-either-corrupt-or-incompetent\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell amid a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the central bank&rsquo;s ongoing renovations. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s either corrupt or incompetent,&rdquo; Trump told CBS News&rsquo;s Tony Dokoupil, referring to the price tag and time frame of the project, during an interview that aired Tuesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}