Trump threatens to sue JPMorgan Chase for ‘debanking’ him

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/trump-jpmorgan-chase-debanking.html

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    1. Personal-Walrus-3682 on

      JPM can debank anyone they want.

      Trump is mad because:

      1) Jamie Dimon wouldn’t let JPM “donate” to the Trump ballroom because as Dimon said it, the bank is concerned with the long term and has to consider future justice department inquiries into bribery during the Trump administration.

      2) Dimon openly supports independent FOMC.

      3) Dimon understands that if you cap credit card interest rates banks just won’t issue credit cards to poor people at all.

    2. Well, maybe Alex Jones is right. What is in his diet Coke that makes him say dumb things.

    3. MirthandMystery on

      Every major bank refused doing business with Trump decades ago due to his bad reputation for defrauding and harassing top Deutsche Bank loan office managers. And some banks had been burned by him before.

      He took out huge loans based on fraudulently claiming assets he had were a far higher value than what they were, demanded a lower interest rate and extensions on loans, which were initially denied. So Trump threatened and flatly stated he wouldn’t pay, and if they didn’t give in and change the terms to what he wanted he said he’d default entirely and not pay anything back.

      Look up who Nicholas Haigh is.

      He was Deutsche Bank’s head of risk management for its private wealth management unit and played a pivotal role in approving and overseeing loans to Trump’s company.

      Haigh personally reviewed Trump’s financial statements and was involved in setting key loan terms, such as requiring Trump to maintain a minimum net worth of $2.5 billion (excluding brand value) as a covenant for the $125 million Doral golf resort loan

      Haigh testified that the bank relied heavily on Trump’s statements of financial condition when making lending decisions, and that he would not have authorized the loans if he had known those statements were inflated.

      But take in consideration Deutsche Bank was struggling, and well known for being shady and corrupt, a friend to criminals needing to launder cash. Trump had a long history with them for good reason. But that relationship was always fraught.

      Around 1995 Trump defaulted on more than $3 billion in bank debt related to his casino and hotel empire following financial struggles. As a result, these lenders (not yet DB) seized the Plaza Hotel and many other Trump properties in a restructuring that avoided personal bankruptcy. 

      By 2008 Trump’s company took a $640 million loan from Deutsche Bank for the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, being unable to get loans from other banks. During the 2008 financial crisis, condo sales lagged and Trump’s LLC defaulted on this loan.

      Just one of many times he uses other people’s money to make a terrible deal that never went right. The infamous Trump SoHo with Russians (Tevfik Arif) was another. He often leaves banks, private lenders and building contractors on the hook, not honoring contracts or paying his bills.

      He surely thinks he can do this to Americas debt too- spend like mad on projects that benefit him, but he’ll walk away having increased the debt so high the US might well default. When it does, the economy tanks. And he’ll have billions to buy up assets cheap.

    4. DAVOS 2025

      Jamie Dimon says Trump’s tariff policy is positive for national security so people should ‘get over it’

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      This has been another episode of appeasement doesn’t work.

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