Trump Tells Reporters 'I've Been A Victim Myself' When Asked About Debanking

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, President Trump discussed the topic of debanking.

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00:00industries such as crypto people involved in that would you be open or interested to sign such an

00:05executive order targeting debanking and what well i think the debankers i think that banks i can tell

00:11you because i've been a victim myself because of my politics that big banks were very nasty to us

00:19and i actually think it was biden's people that told them to be because the one group of people

00:26the banks are afraid of the regulators they are petrified of the regulators and i've seen the

00:32biggest banker i can tell you you see him on television all the time if a regulator walked

00:36into the room he gets all nervous and crazy uh they're afraid of the regulators and if the biden

00:42people order the banks to be virtually closed they could do anything they want the regulators

00:48control the banks it's not the president of the bank the president of the bank is far less important

00:52to a bank than a regulator and a regulator can put that bank out of business just like

00:57uh bad prosecutors are very dangerous you know we had a couple i had deranged jack smith and some others

01:03and we kicked their ass but it was you know it's a tough kind of a situation uh prosecutors are very

01:10dangerous a great prosecutor is an amazing asset for a country uh but a corrupt prosecutor a bad

01:17prosecutor is very bad well the regulators are the same thing and when they tell the regulator to go and

01:22make it make life impossible for big banks or little banks uh they really control it so there is a lot

01:28of debanking and there's a they call it debanking call a lot of different names essentially they make

01:33it impossible to do business and those people are very bad and very dangerous and uh they shouldn't

01:39be doing it

01:40be doing it on taxes mr president could you