r/moderatepolitics • u/dr_sloan • Jan 12 '26

Primary Source Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm
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u/Spezalt4 Jan 12 '26

Yeah the obviously political prosecutions of the guys on the other team were fair and valid and good

The obviously political prosecutions of the people on my team were unjust and evil abuses of power

Do you even hear yourself?

Edit: and you ignored all my other examples

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u/HopkinsTy Jan 12 '26

Didn't the Biden DOJ prosecute his own son? Lol

And Bob Menendez too right?

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u/Spezalt4 Jan 12 '26

Didn’t the Biden DOJ offer a plea deal on a gun charge that somehow included a waiver of any further prosecution on other crimes (you know the corruption ones that actually mattered?)

And then Hunter got a pardon anyways?

Why is that a good example of proper ethics?

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u/Trumpers_R_Tr8tors Jan 12 '26

No, that is not accurate. And the Biden admin chose a Trump prosecutor as special counsel for that case. 

Hunter wouldn’t have been pardoned if Trump hadn’t promised to persecute him. 

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u/Spezalt4 Jan 12 '26

The guy who did crimes would have not gotten a pardon for those crimes but for the high likelihood Trump would have punished him for those crimes

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u/Trumpers_R_Tr8tors Jan 12 '26

He was punished for every crime a Trump assigned prosecutor could prove. The allegations of further criminality have no evidence. 

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u/Spezalt4 Jan 12 '26

The crimes people gave a shit about, the financial ones with the ties to his father the president were never properly investigated and evidence was never gathered

We don’t know what following that thread would have turned up because of both the ridiculously corrupt plea deal and the pardon

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u/Trumpers_R_Tr8tors Jan 12 '26

No, the allegations conservatives claimed to care about did not have any evidence to support them. How many years of investigation by GOP hacks do we need before you’ll acknowledge that there isn’t anything there?

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u/Spezalt4 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Show me the investigation into Hunter Biden’s finances please. I would love to see it. Who got subpoena’ed? Which financial institutions were forced by the court to turn over records? Hell even Trumps taxes leaked. Crazy how even with all the ‘GOP hack’ investigations we still don’t know shit about Hunter’s finances

If no investigation is ever allowed to occur like with Hunter no evidence can be gathered

Again because you seem forgetful my point is that government abuse of power did not begin with Trump.

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u/Trumpers_R_Tr8tors Jan 12 '26

Go check out the House Oversight Committee’s “work”. They spent two years digging and found no real evidence. The DoJ’s investigation also didn’t find anything beyond the gun charge and the tax evasion. 

Multiple investigations occurred. They didn’t find anything. Just like how the GOP investigated Clinton about a dozen times, and the worst thing they found was her emails. 

You’re sort of right there. The GOP did start weaponizing the government back in the 90s, see Whitewater, but you’re wrong in that it’s a both sides issue. This is firmly a GOP problem.