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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.

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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.

 

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17 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.

  • Cotour said: “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.”

    Rather than a perfect solution, I propose a good enough solution: as a start, a return to tar, feather, riding out of town on a rail for all the feds that demanded this and all the banking execs who went along. Such behavior is intolerable and a life changing or ending choice, as kicking one out of the banking system is very close to being the latter. Punish everyone involved. No mercy. Cheers –

  • John

    I donated to a conservative cause fighting the covid tyranny. Immediately after that my credit card that I used to pay utilities for years suddenly stopped working. Same thing happened sporadically on random charges for a while. A phone call always fixed things, and the most I got out of them was the transaction was flagged for ‘fraud’.

    I doubt my meager contributions got me into operation choke point. But it was no coincidence and leftists will abuse any power they have.

    I strongly encourage people to vote with your wallet and debank them instead. Not just banks, we simply have to stop doing business with those people wherever possible. There is a developing conservative ecosystem and other alternatives.

    They will mess with you if they think they can get away with it, even if you’re just a little guy. Whatever messed with my account or the fraud algorithm, got away with it.

  • Phill O

    Welcome to Canada eh!

  • Phill O

    Here is what Canadian banks are doing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sZY0k2uQvw

  • agimarc:

    While your solution would serve as an effective stark warning to those who would dare to violate the Objective rules of operation concerning banking and the people’s free access by Right to use them within normal operations to freely do their business, alas that is a Subjective fantasy.

    Those who were politically empowered who would enact such a scheme suffer consequences at the polls. You get what you pay / vote for.

    Those within the bureaucracy however who enforce such a Subjective and politically convenient agenda in the service of clearly partisan political warfare if there is a paper trail / evidence of overt corruption and the violation of the people’s ability to live freely might have some legal vulnerability? Depends on who is in control of the government apparatus.

    As an example: 37 people installed within the deep state the other day lost their security clearances. Mr. Comey, Brennan and Clapper and possibly even Ma Barker (Hillary Clinton) herself and many more may in fact at least be indicted for such similar clearly partisan political actions in the service of “The Cause”.

    At least force them to defend themselves in a protracted federal prosecution. Although we can already see Ma Barker and other partisans playing up to Trumps ego by supporting his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

    And Trump has responded in a predictable and characteristically positive manner to her pandering.

    At this level of politics, they MAY be indicted and forced to defend themselves but there are those among them who will sleep well at night understanding that at least some or all of them will receive a pardon or clemency from a politically involved president in power at the moment.

    You, me and everyone else exist within the Pedestrian Realm where things are more black and white, and that condition is not so in the Political Realm where politically empowered or connected individuals are afforded a pass in their political warfare schemes and actions in pursuit of political power and control.

    I just like you would love to see this rule violated to some degree in this very contentious time in American history in order to discourage such destructive anti American political warfare activities. We wait.

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/what-is-really-going-on-strategy-over-morality

  • Related and to my point:

    “TRUMPED UP” LAWFARE FINES AGAINST TRUMP THROWN OUT BY COURT

    “New York State Attorney Generals outrageous politically motivated lawfare attack on President Trump during an election cycle where he was the main threat to the Democrats has been tossed out by the New York State Appeals Court.

    As was expected. What will become of the conviction? Stay tuned.

    “NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump, ruling Thursday in New York state’s lawsuit accusing him of exaggerating his wealth.

    The decision came seven months after the Republican returned to the White House. A panel of five judges in New York’s mid-level Appellate Division said the verdict, which stood to cost Trump over $515 million and rock his real estate empire, was “excessive.”

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2025-08-21/appeals-court-throws-out-massive-civil-fraud-penalty-against-president-donald-trump

    The irony?

    Exclusive | Special Attorney Ed Martin checks out Tish James’ ‘mortgage fraud’ home

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/trumped-up-lawfare-fines-against-trump-thrown-out-by-court

  • Cotour

    Max:

    Given an order like this in regard to fair banking and the other measures that are being taken in election integrity, eliminating mail in voting and promoting mass illegal immigration, how will the Democrat party remain relevant and of any consequence?

    Aren’t you concerned about the Democrat party surviving in order to further enrich the American experience?

    What will the Democrat party leadership members be left to work with to become politically empowered?

  • Jeff Wright

    “What will the Democrat party leadership members be left to work with to become politically empowered?”

    Maybe they could start by being the party of poor people, instead of transgender snail darter lives matter

  • Cotour

    Oh, I agree, they all need to be made poorer.

    And that is underway today, and they so richly deserve it.

    https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/democrats-main-fundraising-committee-so-cash-strapped-its-considering-borrowing-money-really-f-ked/

    They have earned their impoverishment and that is the only way to get their attention.

    But there is a significant contingent of Democrat “progressives” that will insist that the American people bend to their ideology and moralistic Subjective will.

    And that you can bank on!

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/who-sets-the-standard

  • Jeff Wright

    Watch those computer firms
    https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-company-nation.html

    “When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the public. Palantir Technologies, however, has attracted more and more attention over the past decade because of the size and scope of its contracts with the government.”

    Now–I hear the plate cameras refuse to work with ICE

    I bet they had no problems with the BATF

    This story from down under could be used for gas-lighting
    https://phys.org/news/2025-08-pseudolaw-high-theater-courts.html

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