Or do we just have criminal activity?
This article is from Aug 3 and covers one of the President’s more obscure grievances – but potentially most damaging.
Capital One closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts in 2021 “for anti-money laundering reasons,” the bank disclosed for the first time in a court filing Friday [I believe that would be 31 July 2026] night.
President Donald Trump has maintained that his businesses were “debanked” for political reasons, and the Trump Organization sued Capital One in Florida federal court last year, claiming “considerable financial harm” from the loss of the accounts.
The latest filing from Capital One in the case before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida reiterates the lender’s denial of any political motivation, stating that “the closures were the result of months of analysis” by a team “with decades of law enforcement experience.” [CNN/Business]
Prior to and throughout this second term, not even halfway finished, we’ve seen the President and his allies extract money from his supporters in a number of ways, from memecoins to NFTs to tchotchkes, selling shares in a public company that has little apparent worth, government slush funds, selling pardons to the desperate, using pardons to bind the threatened in loyalty, sold influence on policy positions ranging from foreign relations to cryptocurrency, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten half a dozen more.
So if a chance to score big from money laundering came along, is it hard to see him taking it?
And then getting caught? Remember, this guy may be clever, but he’s not smart.
I’m wondering why the Democrats haven’t used this hammer to continue to chip away at Trump’s base. While there are many devoted fans, even the most devoted can become exhausted through continued news. Eventually, the dead guy on Fifth Avenue becomes the reason to hang the shooter, not celebrate him.
Are the Democrats simply waiting for a vulnerable moment to catch him unawares?
