Money Laundering Trump Family

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Fast forward to March 2025. Trump’s back in the White House, the grievance machine is running at full capacity, and the Trump Organization and Eric Trump — yes, that Eric — sue Capital One in Florida. Their theory? The bank “debanked” them because of its “woke” beliefs and because it wanted to cash in on the anti-Trump political mood after January 6th. Persecution! Bias! The war on conservatives comes for the family business!
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On Friday, Capital One filed its response, and folks, it is a beauty. The bank told the court — for the first time ever, publicly, on the record — that it closed those accounts for anti-money laundering reasons. Not vibes. Not politics. Not because some HR intern in a Patagonia vest got the ick. Because the bank’s actual financial crimes unit spent months analyzing the accounts and reviewing them under bank policy and federal regulatory guidance, and then said “yeah, we’re done here.”

Let me repeat that, because it’s genuinely historic: according to Reuters, this is the first time any bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to the sitting president’s family business. In a court document. That the Trumps forced them to file. By suing them.
They did this to themselves. They walked into court, pointed at the bank, and screamed “TELL EVERYONE WHY YOU DUMPED US,” and the bank went “...okay.”

Rest of article with supporting documentation here:

open.substack.com - Trump sued his bank for being woke

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