Posted on 08/12/2025 3:12:43 PM PDT by george76
The scale of the effort to “debank” Donald Trump because of pressure from Biden administration regulators went far beyond JPMorgan and Bank of America, The Post has learned.
At least 10 other financial institutions closed their windows to the billionaire real estate tycoon over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill melee.
The moves came in the months after Trump left the White House in 2021, sources inside the Trump Organization told me.
The stunning scale of the blacklisting is being revealed here for the first time.
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It should be reported as much as possible for the simple reason that if any big bank can cancel a former president over politics as opposed to illegality, then every American citizen is in danger of facing the same mistreatment.
For expressing an opinion, or starting a business out of step with the progressive culture norms that have infected so much of society, you too can see your economic livelihood go up in smoke and “debanked.”
Debanking is such an odd word for one of the most insidious parts of cancel culture, and its sponsors like it that way.
It sanitizes, via clumsy, obtuse lingo, what is essentially something of dangerous Orwellian magnitude: negating an American citizen’s ability to save, and conduct business through a big bank.
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There are some people who badly need to go to jail
An understatement.
I guess only democrats are allowed to deny services to customers they don’t like
anyone else is called a racist/homophobe and their business is shutdown
Canada already did it over the Truckers’ Protest. One difference is that the U.S. has hundreds of different banks while Canada has about a half-dozen
Sounds like another conspiracy to deprive rights case.
Sue them all.
A quote from John Adams, the second President.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Oh yes not surprising at all and definitely where the culture is going. Next up is expressing unsupportive LGBT views can get your mortgage cancelled. Hope we are a long way from that but you never know.
In that case it was the executive branch unilaterally freezing bank accounts with no legal basis.
That’s politicizing law enforcement./sarc
The whole point is to deny opponents anything. This shows the process of authoritarian dictatorships.
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