Former President Donald Trump claimed Friday on Fact Social that he’d acquired the endorsement of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who appeared to haven’t any information of the event and instantly disavowed it.
“New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for President,” a post on Trump’s Truth Social account learn.
As of Friday afternoon, the lie had garnered 6,910 likes and a pair of,270 “ReTruths.”
A spokesperson for Dimon unequivocally denied the declare.
“Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anybody,” Joe Evangelisti told CNBC. “He has not endorsed a candidate.”
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
When an NBC reporter requested Trump in regards to the publish, the Republican presidential nominee stated he knew nothing about it.
As of this story’s publication, the false endorsement was nonetheless on Trump’s Fact Social account greater than three hours after it was first printed, even after Trump had made a number of extra posts.
Dimon has been important of Trump prior to now, suggesting in 2018 that the then-president wasn’t all that good.
“I believe I might beat Trump… as a result of I’m as powerful as he’s, I’m smarter than he’s,” Dimon reportedly stated at an occasion in New York. “And by the way in which, this rich New Yorker truly earned his cash. It wasn’t a present from daddy.” (Dimon later walked again the remarks.)
