If I lived in Michigan, I’d vote4Abdul Al-Sayed in a heartbeat. If I lived in Maine, I’d vote4Troy Jackson in a heartbeat. If I lived in Texas, I’d vote4Talarico in a nanosecond. Now’s NOT the time4butt-hurt purity tests. US Democracy’s literally hanging in the balance. #VoteBlue
The Trump Organization had roughly 385 accounts closed by Capital One after the bank’s anti-money-laundering team spent months reviewing them.
Imagine the reaction if this involved any other prominent political family.
If any other president’s businesses had hundreds of bank accounts terminated after an anti-money-laundering review by one of the nation’s largest banks, it would dominate the news cycle.
Instead, it surfaced in a federal court filing on a Friday afternoon and is being largely forgotten by Monday.
And it wasn’t just one bank.
There is a separate lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase involving accounts it also closed during roughly the same period. Trump says the banks engaged in politically motivated debanking. The banks say they acted for legitimate business and compliance reasons. The courts will decide those cases.
What is not in dispute is that while these lawsuits are pending, Trump is using the power of the presidency to push regulators toward policies that would make it harder for banks to take similar actions in the future. When a president’s private business disputes and public authority begin to overlap, every American should pay attention.
We’ve seen this pattern before. In 2019, during his first term, Trump sued Capital One and Deutsche Bank to block them from complying with congressional subpoenas seeking his financial records.
The public deserves to know why hundreds of Trump-linked accounts were closed, why so much of the record remains under seal, and whether a sitting president’s personal financial interests are influencing the exercise of public power.
This is not the standard of accountability we should expect from someone entrusted with the presidency.
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#BREAKING: Talarico: “The president of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus. You wanna know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers. You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent school children in #Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war. You know what insults Jesus? Covering up the #Epstein files and then refusing to prosecute a single person in them.”😳