The
president
and
his
lawyers
have
emerged
from
under
the
bridge
and
announced
the
target
of
the
next
shakedown
trollsuit.
JAMIE
DIMON,
COME
ON
DOWN!
Trump
announced
the
litigation
last
week
on
Truth
Social,
insisting
that
he
would
never
consider
a
loser
like
Dimon,
the
CEO
of
JP
Morgan
Chase,
to
lead
the
Fed
or
Treasury.
And
yesterday
he
actually
filed
the
thing
(h/t
Reuters)
in
local
court
in
Miami-Dade.
It’s
real,
and
it’s
spectacularly
bonkers.
The
gravamen
of
the
claim
is
that
the
bank
sent
Trump
a
letter
on
February
19,
2021,
six
weeks
after
he
sent
a
mob
to
lay
siege
to
the
seat
of
government,
giving
him
and
his
associated
businesses
60
days
to
find
someone
else
to
hold
their
money.
This
violates
Florida’s
consumer
protection
statute
…
don’t
ask
how.
And
then
JPMC
put
Trump’s
name
on
a
“blacklist”
of
customers
that
it
wouldn’t
do
business
with,
which
is
trade
libel,
despite
being
true.
“Plaintiffs
are
confident
that
JPMC’s
unilateral
decision
came
about
as
a
result
of
political
and
social
motivations,
and
JPMC’s
unsubstantiated,
‘woke’
beliefs
that
it
needed
to
distance
itself
from
President
Trump
and
his
conservative
political
views,”
he
claims.
This
is
rather
undercut
by
his
own
social
media
post
in
which
he
directly
links
the
“debanking”
to
“the
January
6th
Protest,”
not
his
“conservative
political
views.”
And
anyway,
“conservative
political
views”
is
not
a
protected
class,
a
point
the
complaint
tacitly
concedes
by
pointing
to
Trump’s
executive
order
purporting
to
make
it
one
in
August
of
2025
and
Republican
Senator
Kevin
Cramer’s
reintroduction
of
a
law
banning
it
last
year.
Florida
made
a
hamfisted
attempt
to
bar
it
in
2023
when
it
outlawed
ESG,
but
that
was
along
after
the
bank
gave
Trump
the
boot.
Also,
the
statute
provides
no
private
right
of
action,
as
Trump
helpfully
concedes
in
his
complaint.
But
Trump
is
undeterred!
He
and
his
libeltroll
lawyer
Alejandro
Brito
demand
$5
billion
for
the
embarrassment
of
having
to
move
all
that
cash
“given
that
Plaintiffs
have
always
complied
with
all
applicable
banking
rules.”
AHEM.
But
why
bother
with
the
niceties
of
pleading
an
actual
cause
of
action
when
you
have
the
entire
regulatory
apparatus
of
the
federal
government
at
your
disposal
and
you’ve
made
clear
you’re
willing
to
deploy
it
against
any
entity
that
fails
to
pay
you
tribute?
The
only
paragraph
that
matters
is
the
one
where
Trump
notes
that
JPMC
is
“under
federal
investigation
due
to
its
prior
history
of
political
debanking
and
other
viewpoint-based
debanking.”
Translation:
Get
out
your
checkbook,
or
prepare
to
be
harassed
at
every
turn
by
an
alphabet
soup
of
federal
agencies.
Time
for
another
eight-figure
donation
to
the
Trump
presidential
library.
Those
Qatari
bribe
jets
require
a
lot
of
expensive
maintenance!
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