No time. He does nothing but watch TV and tweet all day. He has plenty of time.
There's been plenty of reporting over the years that banks wouldn't touch him - with the exception of Deutsche Bank, which was laundering money for Russians.
His followers will buy anyhing he sells, won't they?
He doesn't need banks. He has a lot of money, he has a great business, but he doesn't need banks. Right. I suppose all that money is stuffed in mattresses in Trump hotels?
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE:
NYT articleThe president* and his son-in-law, who has anywhere between three and 81 jobs in the administration*, were shuffling money around in such a funky fashion that money-laundering experts—at the only bank in the world from which the president* can get more than a souvenir calendar—felt compelled to raise an alarm. Putting the words "money laundering" and "president" in the same sentence used to be enough for network news to throw up one of those scarifying "BULLETIN" graphics. Putting the word "Russian" in there, too, used to be enough to get Walter Cronkite to sail his sloop all the way from the Vineyard to Black Rock.
Apparently, according to the people interviewed by the Times, DB functioned as an all-purpose international laundromat for various people who needed money cleaned. Of course, the stakes rise considerably when one of the folks waiting for the spin cycle to finish is the president* of the United States.
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None of this is normal. None of this is right. None of this comes within several hundred hectares of complying with the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution that this guy swore to preserve and protect. Presidents are not supposed to scare bankers into hand-waving money-laundering allegations. That's not in the job description.
Charles P. Pierce
YWA post on NYT article
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