Trump just had to compel financial institutions to fulfill their basic responsibilities of serving their customers instead of fretting over their political beliefs. But as one former Trump attorney put it, this is what the banks should have been doing all along.
A new Trump executive order is course-correcting Biden administration policies that encouraged financial institutions to debank customers who might pose a reputational risk. In exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America, former Trump attorney John Eastman, who was debanked by Bank of America and USAA, said that rogue regulators are no excuse for financial censorship. [T]hey should have exposed what the regulators were doing. Certainly, USAA, they ought to [have] stood up to that tyranny if that's in fact what was going on.”