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Bank officials: Obama and Biden demanded we blacklist Republican customers

Today's modern Democratic Party
Today’s modern Democratic Party

They’re coming for you next: According to this Fox New report, major bank executives have admitted that White House officials during the Obama and Biden administrations aggressively pressured them to cancel the bank accounts and blacklist many customers, simply because those customers had political opinions that Obama, Biden, and the Democratic Party did not like.

Fox News Digital spoke with two executives at leading U.S. banks, who asked to remain anonymous, fearing reprisals. The executives said that ambiguity in federal laws was exploited by regulators under the Obama and Biden administrations in order to pursue political objectives. According to one executive, banks were pressured to deny services to certain industries as part of Operation Choke Point and Operation Choke Point 2.0. “When there’s ambiguity in the law, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for a long time the beholder was the Obama and Biden administration,” the official said.

A House Oversight Committee report found that “Operation Choke Point,” a DOJ task force whose aim was to “choke out” legal companies disfavored by the Obama administration, worked with bank regulators to label certain industries, including firearms sales, as “high risk.”

During the height of the blacklisting craze in both the Obama and Biden administrations, numerous conservative candidates and organizations and individuals suddenly found their bank accounts canceled and their businesses blocked from ordinary financial transactions. These new allegations confirm what was strongly suspected at the time, that the Democrats were using the regulations to blackmail banks into doing this blacklisting.

This story proves without doubt the despicable and thuggish nature of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and the Democratic Party minions who worked under them. Moreover, these allegations add great weight to the other accusations against Obama and many intelligence officials for making up the Trump-Russian collusion hoax. If Obama was willing to threaten banks if they didn’t blacklist conservatives, he and those intelligent officials would surely have had no problem working up a fake story to slander and destroy Trump.

All the more reason for voters to utterly reject this Democratic Party. It has not reformed itself, and it is clearly now a threat to not only our Constitution and the rule of law, it is a direct threat to the livelihood and freedom of every single American. It has no morals at all. All these Democrats care about is power. If the voters give that power back to them in any future election, they will use it to destroy all who disagree with them.

And there no longer any doubt about this at all.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • Cotour

    BUSTED!

    The Democrat party went for the whole enchilada in the form of attempting to destroy all who might politically oppose them in all of the ways that they had in their command. From debanking their opponents to flooding the country with millions of illegals.

    This is how political warfare is fought, it is fought to win!

    And the only thing that attempts to counterbalance this what is the nature of man in the pursuit of absolute political power and control?

    Starts with a “C” ends with ‘STITUTION’.

    All in the effort to reveal some measure of truth to the people who ultimately in theory maintain some great measure of control of their country.

    And that’s the truth!

  • M. Murcek

    As Bart Simpson said, “I don’t know why I did it. I don’t know why I enjoyed it. I don’t know why I’ll do it again.”

  • David Eastman

    And the banks complied without protest, and the executives who spoke for this article did so anonymously, “fearing reprisals.” We need a lot more than just an executive order and a temporary cleaning of the regulations to fix this.

  • Cotour

    David Eastman:

    There is no perfect solution to such things. As soon as the political power is realized and the policy agenda is set and enacted those who understand especially in the banking system who and what oversees and regulates their entire existence do what they have to do in the short term.

    And the Democrat party machine drove that pursuit of absolute political power agenda to the hilt!

    In the long term it is the Constitution and what it Objectively structures that ensures there is the ability to counterbalance extreme power moves in the pursuit of absolute political power and control. In the long term.

    By design, and that is the brilliance of what the Founders were able to miraculously forge 250 years ago using parchment and pens made of turkey feathers!

    Much like trying to understand how the pyramids were made IMO.

    And there they both stand whether you understand it or not.

    Amazing.

  • Boobah

    Can’t help but think that some parts of the financial system seem to think that it’s a great idea. Visa and MasterCard debanked (and destroyed) Manga Library Z, forced Niconico, Steam, and itch.io to change their terms of service and consequently remove content, all while partnering with known pedophile haven Roblox.

    That latter rather makes their claims about ‘protecting their brand’ ring rather hollow, not just because they seem to be more worried about fictional harm than actual harm, but because the extent of what they claim harms the brand encompasses far more than what they’ve actually demanded be removed; should the payment processors’ TOS be read literally, any video game, movie, or book that depicts killing should be forbidden.

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