NYP gossip again, the Trump haters at NYP always mention his age.
Donald Trump has been secretly communicating with ‘man crush’ Jamie Dimon about White House agenda for months: sources 1/2
By Published Nov. 29, 2024
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has been communicating with Donald Trump in recent months through secret back channels, helping the president-elect hammer out a policy agenda before and since his decisive White House victory, The Post has learned.
The 68-year-old Wall Street titan — who, like 78-year-old Trump, grew up in Queens in New York City — has acted as “a sounding board” for the incoming commander-in-chief’s economic manifesto, four sources close to Trump’s transition team.
One GOP insider said the president-elect’s inner circle held a series of “no-holds-barred conversations” with Dimon— who at the time was rumored to be eyeing a government job himself. “They have been speaking regularly for months,” said another GOP source briefed on the situation.
Three of the sources close to Trump said the secret back channel focused on plans for cutting government spending, banking regulation, taxes and trade.
A company insider added that Trump’s top aides set up the calls, which continued after the election, to “create a bit of daylight” between the two men andstop details of the exchanges leaking.
A spokesperson for the Trump transition team declined to comment. A JPMorgan spokesman also declined to comment.
The quietly cozy relationship between Trump and Dimon has flourished despite the banker’s cryptic and tight-lipped tendencies when it comes to politics. Trump had floated Dimon’s name as a possible Treasury secretary pick in June and later claimed he had won his White House endorsement — despite a lack of any public statement from Dimon to that effect.
Trump and Dimon also have continued to talk despite bouts of tension, including on Nov. 14 when thepresident-elect declared on Truth Social that Dimon ”will not be invited” to join his Cabinet. The banker promptly shot back: “I haven’t had a boss in 25 years and I’m not about ready to start.”
The JPMorgan CEO, a registered Democrat who declined to back either candidate in the White House race, had even reportedly toyed with the idea of joining a Kamala Harris administration but then ruled himself out of leaving the Wall Street giant when her poll numbers tanked, The Post previously reported.
On Nov. 22, The Post broke the news that Trump was also consulting with Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, a major Dem donor, on policy issues.(yikes keep your enemies closer)
Nevertheless, the former” Apprentice” star’s admiration of Dimon, who has helmed JPMorgan Chase for nearly two decades and has a net worth estimated by Forbes at $2.6 billion, was described by one source as “a man crush.”
Another individual close to the president-elect said Trump “greatly appreciated” it when Dimon, an avid reader of the New York Post, told CNBC in January the eventual election winner was “kind of right” to criticize illegal immigration and weak defense spending by America’s NATO allies.
Dimon’s comments angered left-wingers within theBiden administration who then blacklisted Dimon from the White House in a fit of pique, as The Post exclusively reported.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/29/business/jamie-dimon-has-been-secretly-communicating-with-donald-trump-on-white-house-agenda-for-months-sources/