New York, United States
Deutsche Bank decided not to do any more business in the future with outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, or with his companies, representing major clients, following the violent invasion of his supporters in Congress, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
However, the bank would not cut off all contact with the Republican tycoon, who still owes more than $ 300 million to the entity, Added the medium.
In this way, Deutsche Bank joins different companies that have already decided cut his financial ties with Trump, Accused by some of inciting his followers to violently invade the Capitol, the seat of the US Congress, on January 6.
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The leader of the American subsidiary of the bank, Christiana Riley, Had already severely condemned the incidents on the professional network LinkedIn last week, denouncing “a gloomy day for the United States and (its) democracy.”
“Violence doesn’t take place in our society and the scenes that happened (Wednesday) are a disgrace to the entire nation,” Riley said.
Deutsche Bank it has a complicated history with the incumbent president.
The German institution is one of the only large Western banks that they continued to lend money to the Trump empire after the bankruptcy of several of its casinos in the 1990s. This decision put him at the center of numerous investigations in the United States.
The bank received several requests to provide documents, as part of an investigation into suspicions of collusion between the US and Russian billionaire campaign, for example, or on loans linked to the company. real estate of the family of his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Another entity that managed Trump’s personal accounts, Signature Bank, also began closing them, a spokeswoman said.