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🗓️ 8 August 2025
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| 0:17.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:23.6 | Donald Trump signs a new executive order cracking down on debanking. |
| 0:28.5 | What is it? How big a problem is it? And how much will this order actually do to combat the practice? |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome to the Potomac Watch podcast, the daily podcast of the Wall Street |
| 0:39.2 | Journal editorial page. I'm Kim Strassel, your host today, and I'm joined by two colleagues |
| 0:44.6 | who last I knew had not been debanked, but nonetheless know a lot about the question, Alicia Finley |
| 0:50.9 | and Manet Uquay-Bruwa. Before we even get to the executive order, let's just talk about the issue for a second. |
| 0:58.0 | Debanking is the circumstance in which an individual or an entity in an industry loses access to financial services, |
| 1:05.6 | often because they are declared, and even though they may not be told this, a reputational risk for the bank. |
| 1:12.7 | No less than Donald Trump says it has happened to him. Let's hear him talk about the experience. |
| 1:17.8 | I'll give you me as an example. I had hundreds of millions. I had many, many accounts loaded up |
| 1:23.9 | with cash. I was loaded up with cash. And they told me, I'm sorry, sir, we can't have you. |
| 1:31.1 | You have 20 days to get out. Then what happens is I call a Bank of America routinely. And I |
| 1:37.3 | speak to him, and I speak to a couple of people, and they have zero interest. I ended up going |
| 1:43.1 | to small banks all over the place. I mean, I was putting |
| 1:45.7 | 10 million here, 10 million there, 5 million, 10 million, 12 million. I have them all over the place. |
| 1:52.8 | It's the craziest thing. And that's because the banks discriminated against me very badly. |
| 1:58.7 | And I was very good to the banks. I had the greatest economy in the |
| 2:01.3 | history of our country when I was president. They totally discriminate against, I think me |
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