Trump says he will sue JPMorgan Chase over ‘debanking’ him after Jan 6 protests
Trump paired lawsuit threat with debunking a report Wall StreetJournal He said he offered JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon the role of chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Trump, a two-time president, called the claim “totally false” saying no such offer was ever made and blamed the newspaper for not seeking comment before publication.
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“The Fake News Wall Street Journal’s front page article states, without any verification, that I offered the post of Fed Chairman to Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan Chase. This statement is completely false, there was never such an offer, and in fact, I will be suing JPMorgan Chase within the next two weeks for wrongfully and improperly REMOVING me from the bank after the January 6th Protest, a protest that turned out to be true for those who made this protest – The Election WAS RAIDED! Trump said he wrote in a long post on Truth Social.
He also said the report should have been easily rebutted with a phone call and insisted that the real issue now being taken to court was the bank’s alleged account transactions against him.
Trump also rejected suggestions that he considered Dimon as Treasury secretary and said he was pleased with Scott Bessent, whom he praised as “a superstar.”Also Read | American CEOs cautiously oppose Trump
“Why didn’t The Wall Street Journal call me and ask if such an offer had been made? I would have told them ‘NO’ very quickly and that would have been the end of the story. Also, someone was led to believe that I had offered Jamie Dimon the Treasury Secretary job, but that would have been a job he would have been very interested in. The problem is, I had Scott Bessent do a great job,” he wrote in his post.
The episode adds to the growing list of legal battles Trump has waged since returning to office last January. Over the past year, Trump has filed lawsuits or threatened legal action against major organizations, especially the media. New York Times, CBS NewsAnd BBC He stated that most of the news was slanderous or misleading.
