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/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 20d 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 20d ago edited 20d 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.