DAILYCALLER (Ashley Brasfield) - Trump’s SEC Moves To Rescind Private Equity Pay-To-Play Rule, Increasing Public Corruption Concerns
‘Infringed on free speech’
YOUTUBE (Fox Business) - FRAUD CRACKDOWN: SEC chair vows to make FRAUD enforcement a priority
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins details what he calls the agency’s most historic step yet on crypto regulation and expresses hope that the CLARITY Act will reach President Trump’s desk. #foxbusiness #fox #paulatkins #sec #crypto #clarityact #digitalassets #technology #finance #businessnews #economy #regulation #usnews #breakingnews
AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - Exclusive: Bessent calls for less regulation to help small banks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a case for lighter financial regulation at the G20 finance ministers gathering Monday, arguing to CEOs that post-crisis rules have squeezed small banks, according to remarks first shared with Axios. Why it matters: The private sector has a prominent role in the U.S.-led G20, with business leaders like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon participating alongside finance ministers and central bankers. What they're saying: "To expand opportunity for all Americans, the banks that serve Main Street must have the same chance to succeed as those that serve Wall Street," Bessent told a room of executives in Asheville, North Carolina, according to prepared remarks shared…
DAILYCALLER (Paris Apodaca) - Climate Scores Seem To Be Scaring Off Homebuyers. AG Takes Company Behind Them To Court.
‘will have to answer for misleading consumers’
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘Grift in plain sight!’: The Weeknight blasts Trump’s embrace of crypto execs at the White House
Trump welcomes crypto executives to the White House after pocketing $1.4 billion from the industry he regulates. MS NOW Political Analyst Kimberly Atkins Stohr joins The Weeknight to discuss the brazen conflict of interest.
WASHINGTONPOST (Cat Zakrzewski, Jarrell Dillard) - Trump joins leaders of crypto companies in push for industry-backed bill
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Congress to pass legislation that could lend greater legitimacy to the fast-growing industry — which includes the Trump family business.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Receipts! 300 Trump bank accounts CLOSED amid MONEY LAUNDERING probe
MS NOW's Ari Melber reports on new revelations that a major U.S. bank believed the Trump Organization was potentially linked to money laundering. NYU’s Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins for analysis. (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)
AI:In another desperate attempt by the MSNBC propaganda machine to manufacture scandal, Ari Melber is peddling baseless insinuations regarding three hundred Trump bank accounts being closed amidst a purported money laundering probe. This latest hit piece from the radical left seeks to weaponize banking procedures against the President, attempting to frame standard financial administrative actions as evidence of criminal malfeasance. While these establishment mouthpieces obsess over speculative "receipts" and expert conjecture from MSNBC's preferred ideologues like Ruth Ben-Ghiat, they continue to ignore the massive systemic fraud occurring under leftist leadership elsewhere in the country. This is nothing more than a coordinated character…Open
ABCNEWS - Capital One says it closed several Trump accounts 'for anti-money laundering reasons'
Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.
NPR (Willem Marx) - Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut down in 2021.
HUFFPOST - Capital One Says It Closed Trump Organization's Accounts After Anti-Money Laundering Probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to President Donald Trump’s family business.