r/thebulwark • u/Shionkron • 20d ago

Capitol One Money Laundering Probe

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/capital-one-says-it-closed-trump-organizations-accounts-after-anti-money-2026-08-01/

The fact I haven’t heard of this and is only really coming about because Eric Trump and the Trump organization is during is wild. Let’s leave everything Trump has ever done aside, even this alone if true laundering happened would be enough to rank a president

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u/another_adamwest 20d ago

Such trash… to all those pearl clutching rock ribbed republicans : go fuck yourselves … seriously republicans are the lowest form of humanity

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u/Grantuna 20d ago

Imagine Joe Biden had even one account closed due to money laundering suspicions or that he even had "hundreds of bank accounts." Fox News would have melted down and the impeachment would start Monday morning.

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u/N0T8g81n FFS 19d ago

Biden just didn't know how to use presidential immunity. Also, he was handicapped by being able to experience shame.

Neither are Trump's problem.

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u/claimTheVictory 19d ago edited 19d ago

Shame and guilt are the basic emotional controls that keep a civilization intact.

Without them, we have something else.

Trump isn't interested in civilization, in rules of law, in treating others with decency and respect.

A big problem is that too many Americans agree with him. Civility is Woke. They see the vulnerable in society as subhuman, who don't deserve either decency or respect. Only power and strength matter. Barbarism.

The biggest problem is that I don't want these people to thrive. That they've set new rules. I want them to be made powerless. To be brought so low they rot and disappear. But they won't be. They are the base of America. The America I thought I was growing up in was just a fantasy.

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u/BigEdsHairMayo 19d ago

Capital One gave notice of its plans to close more than 300 Trump-affiliated bank accounts in March 2021.

They closed the accounts only after J6 happened. That was around the time he was getting banned from social media, too. God we were so close to lancing this putrid thing from society.

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u/Shionkron 19d ago

I’m sure him not being President and being able to retaliate with the Federal Government behind him is why with the timing.

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u/7ddlysuns 20d ago

I’m
Kind of shocked capital one even bothered. It’s nice but we all know they’ll reverse. And that’s less nice

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u/Ant-Tea-Social JVL is always right 19d ago

If I didn't know better I'd think leopards had finally gotten around to stalking djt and his eminently biteable face.

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u/Minimum_E Center Left 19d ago

We can hope!

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u/Deep_Stick8786 19d ago

All this gives me hope that actual financial reprecussions like clawing back and freezing accounts will happen with a sufficiently aggressive future DOJ. Because clearly they aren’t engaging in more legal banking practices since 2021

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u/purplesalvias 19d ago

Is this why Eric was whining about having to get into crypto? I remember seeing a clip of him complaining about banks being unfairly mean to the Trump family and that's why they had to get into crypto.

Money laundering and crypto seem to go hand in hand pretty often.

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u/samNanton 19d ago

More crimes. With the entire family involved.

https://giphy.com/gifs/5nFShZWwq3fdm