Another Trump Vindictive Prosecution is DOA!
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has announced she's closing the criminal investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. But she also announced that she can reopen it in the future.
Given that Republican Senator Thom Tills has announced that he will not confirm Trump's replacement for Powell until the DOJ's investigation of Powell has concluded, this seems like a transparent and cynical ploy by Trump and Pirro to placate Sen. Tillis.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirshner. |
| 0:15.3 | Yet another of Donald Trump's vindictive prosecutions is getting shut down. |
| 0:20.4 | Glenn has the story next on Justice Matters. |
| 0:25.1 | Here's what you've been missing on the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | This makes George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney seem like they were playing |
| 0:34.3 | five-layer chess. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.8 | There's no plan whatsoever because this is how Donald thinks. He doesn't think two, four, five steps down the road. He's thinking, okay, what's next? I'm going to do that thing that's on the plate next. And then I don't care about anything else that comes after that. And that's evidenced by the fact that he felt as though Iran was about to attack the United States in Israel. |
| 0:55.2 | He had a spidey sense, which is good enough for me. |
| 0:57.0 | Exactly. Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | And that's why he didn't evacuate any Americans out of the region. |
| 1:01.0 | And two, that's why he authorized this attack against this preemptive attack against Iran. |
| 1:06.0 | And guess what Iran is doing in response? |
| 1:08.0 | It's attacking the United States and Israel and half a dozen other countries. |
| 1:12.2 | Who could have seen that coming? |
| 1:13.3 | Subscribe to the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stephanie Miller.com, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Hey all. |
| 1:31.2 | Glenn Kirshner here. |
| 1:33.0 | So friends, for years, literally for years, Donald Trump has been lashing out at, |
| 1:41.5 | berating, belittling, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. |
| 1:46.3 | And when Powell wouldn't bend the knee, wouldn't lower interest rates, as dear leader |
| 1:54.0 | repeatedly demanded, one of Trump's flunkies, D.C. U.S. attorney Janine Piro issued lawless grand jury subpoenas, purporting to open a criminal investigation into Powell. |
| 2:11.1 | Now, a judge threw out those lawless grand jury subpoenas. |
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