Trump says he'll sue JPMorgan Chase for allegedly cutting him off after US Capitol riot

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sat 17 Jan 2026 14.02 EST
Last modified on Sat 17 Jan 2026 14.48 EST


Donald Trump threatened to sue JPMorgan Chase on Saturday, citing an unsubstantiated allegation that major banks discriminated against him after the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.

Trump announced the potential lawsuit in a post on social media, tying the threat to his criticism of a recent Wall Street Journal article that reported he had offered the JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon, the position of US Federal Reserve chair. Trump insists the report is inaccurate and says no such offer was ever made.

The president also reiterated his claim that JPMorgan Chase – the largest US bank – improperly cut off his banking access after the January 6 Capitol attack, without providing evidence. He also did not provide evidence for his often-repeated false claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him.

“I’ll be suing JPMorgan Chase over the next two weeks for incorrectly and inappropriately DEBANKING me after the January 6th Protest, a protest that turned out to be correct for those doing the protesting – The Election was RIGGED!” he wrote. Trump has alleged that several banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, refused to accept his deposits following the events of 6 January 2021. Both institutions have strongly rejected those accusations.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-jp-morgan-chase

[azureblue]

1. What a whiny baby

When is someone going to convict him of abuse of process?

[nilram]

2. I don't feel so bad about keeping a Chase card now.

At least, for now.

[Vinca]

3. I'm sure it has nothing to do with his deadbeat status. Wink, wink.

[paleotn]

4. And lose.....once again.

What a fucking loser he is.

[wolfie001]

5. Discriminated against Shitler

That's perfectly acceptable in my book

[Jacson6]

6. MS Now should play this music video everytime Trumpy threatens to sue people.

BTW, Has Trump paid that $88M to his sex assualt victim?

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[Hey Joe]

7. This is just another immature punchback at

Jamie Dimon for recently speaking out against some of Tr💩mps actions and venting his concerns about the idiot.
Fuckwit is as transparent as a toddler but makes less sense than one.

[Deuxcents]

8. How many lawsuits does TSF have active? Is there such a thing as abuse of the justice system?

[Jarqui]

9. He's got a problem with that claim because

Letitia James compiled a mountain of evidence for fraud so extensive, Trump's lawyers couldn't muster a credible rebuttal.
Summary judgement on the merits.

Trump had not accurately told the banks his financial situation.
That is not hearsay. It was established in the court documents and evidence.
When the banks got wind of that and as was revealed in the case, they did, they could do what they did - regardless of Jan 6th.
As I vaguely recall, some of them also got wind of his tax problems and there was a large default.
Again, as I vaguely recall, the banks wrote Trump as irregularities came to light. They asked him to respond. Trump didn't.

I'm not his lawyer. Haven't seen his claim. Maybe Trump has a new set of facts I haven't seen. But from what I saw in the Letitia James evidence, he's got a big hill to climb.

[msongs]

10. trump in court under oath...look forward to that happy day nt

[FakeNoose]

11. How many $ billions THIS time?

Sigh ... it's getting so tiresome with him and his endless threats of lawsuits.
We know this will never happen, because Chump's lawyers will never allow him to be deposed.

[dweller]

26. It's 2 weeks ...

Which is real calendar time for Never






✌🏻

[Rebl2]

12. Debanking?

That’s a word I have never heard before.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Could JPMorgan counter sue and call in Jack Smith to testify?

[iemanja]

14. A private company can refuse business to anyone

Except based on discrimination of race, religion, or gender.

[sakabatou]

15. Again and again, Dump acts like a tyrant.

[Bengus81]

16. LOL..."potential lawsuit". Meaning...send me a billion $$ and I'll never file

It's worked most of the time in the last year..........

[NotHardly]

17. LOL... whine some more!

[mdbl]

18. It's way past his jail time.

[Buddyzbuddy]

19. Don't talk about it, DO IT!

Something tells me they would have better lawyers than the idiots that would work for you.

Once opposing counsel brings up discovery you'll go scurring back to your now dilapidated Whitehouse and drop the suit as fast as your tiny hands can muster.

[JohnnyRingo]

20. So he rewrites history to say the rioters were found innocent because the election was stolen....

...but then he wants to walk into a court of law with that bullshit and expect billions of dollars from a bank that saw him as a credit risk after the attempted insurrection?

He it truly deluded. I don't believe he's dumb, I think he is insane.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. That's his solution for EVERYTHING!

[Prairie Gates]

22. Another shakedown...and JP Morgan Chase will decide its better to just pay him

than to fight and endure nonstop harassment from every agency in the federal government.

Gangster government engaging in personal extortion for the executive's private accounts is despotic monarchy.

[Old Crank]

23. The faeces nozzle

Is working full time now.

[travelingthrulife]

24. So tired of these whiny babies suing.

[purr-rat beauty]

25. Is discovery a thing with this?

Be great to expose him even more so as a co-conspirator or mastermind of the attack, destruction of the capitol ,terrorizing of our reps, and murdering of fellow magats and officers alike.

[eppur_se_muova]

27. So ... defense would have to prove a negative ? There's a problem with that.

Any judge should recognize this, and summarily rule this a frivolous lawsuit, plaintiff pays, gavel down.

[lonely bird]

28. Soooo...

Correct me if I am wrong, they are under no obligation to do any business with him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. MaddowBlog-The absurd claim at the heart of Trump's suit against JPMorgan Chase

“You’re not allowed to do what they did,” the president said of the banking giant, making a claim that’s difficult to take seriously.

After Jan 6, JPMorgan Chase saw a scandal-plagued politician with a history of bankruptcies and business failures taking dangerous steps to overturn an election. It effectively said, “Let's not do business with this guy anymore.”

Five years later, Trump decided this entitles him to billion.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-23T20:34:48.092Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-jpmorgan-chase-suit-jamie-dimon

In fact, last summer the president appeared on CNBC and whined for a quite a while about how banks in general (and JPMorgan Chase in particular) had “discriminated against me very badly.” Around the same time, the Republican signed an executive order that directed federal regulators to investigate banks in search of evidence of political discrimination.

This week, he went even further. My MS NOW colleague Erum Salam reported:

President Donald Trump on Thursday sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, for closing his accounts five years ago and allegedly putting him and his family on a ‘blacklist.’

The lawsuit centers on the banking giant’s closure of several accounts linked to Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of MAGA supporters. Trump is seeking at least $5 billion in damages.

In the complaint, filed in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the president alleged, among other things, that JPMorgan Chase engaged in “debanking” after Trump’s role in the assault on the Capitol, as part of the bank’s “woke” beliefs.....

That position seems likely to prevail. Trump’s argument, in a nutshell, is that JPMorgan Chase saw a scandal-plagued politician with a history of bankruptcies and business failures taking dangerous steps to remain in office after he lost an election. At that point, the bank effectively said, “Maybe we shouldn’t be doing business with this guy.”

Five years later, Trump decided that this conclusion was “woke” and that it entitles him to at least $5 billion in damages.

It’s difficult to say why exactly the president waited five years to file this civil suit, though it’s worth noting for context that Jamie Dimon, the bank’s CEO (who is also a defendant in the case), said in November that he wouldn’t donate to Trump’s White House ballroom vanity project.

[travelingthrulife]

30. Must be the one company he has not squeezed for cash yet.