Trump Lies about  Endorsement from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon!

Jamie Dimon.  Photograph – Getty Images.

Dear Commons Community,

Donald Trump claimed Friday on Truth Social that he’d received the endorsement of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who appeared to have no knowledge of the development and immediately disavowed it.

“New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for President,” a post on Trump’s Truth Social account read. As reported by The Huffington Post.

As of Friday afternoon, the lie had garnered 6,910 likes and 2,270 “ReTruths.”

Joe Evangelisti, a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase unequivocally denied the claim.

“Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anyone,” Evangelisti told CNBC. “He has not endorsed a candidate.”

The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

During the Republican presidential primary, Dimon had urged corporate leaders to support former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley over Trump.

When an NBC reporter asked Trump about the post, the Republican presidential nominee said he knew nothing about it.

As of this story’s publication, the false endorsement was still on Trump’s Truth Social account more than three hours after it was first published, even after Trump had made several more posts.

Dimon has been critical of Trump in the past, suggesting in 2018 that the then-president wasn’t all that smart.

“I think I could beat Trump… because I’m as tough as he is, I’m smarter than he is,” Dimon reportedly said at an event in New York. “And by the way, this wealthy New Yorker actually earned his money. It wasn’t a gift from daddy.”

Tony

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