{"id":149734,"date":"2026-04-15T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149734"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:45:08","slug":"trump-threatens-to-fire-fed-chair-powell-if-he-doesnt-step-down-in-timeunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149734","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Powell if he doesn\u2019t step down \u2018in time\u2019United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump has said he will fire Jerome Powell if the Federal Reserve chair does not step down \u201cin time\u201d, adding that he will not drop the Justice Department investigation into the central bank leader.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ll have to fire him, OK, if he\u2019s not leaving on time. I\u2019ve held back firing him. I\u2019ve wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Fox Business.<br \/>\n\u201cI want to be uncontroversial. But he will be fired,\u201d he said in the interview taped on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3350211\/trump-threatens-fire-fed-chair-powell-if-he-doesnt-step-down-time?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump has said he will fire Jerome Powell if the Federal Reserve chair does not step down \u201cin&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}