Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns 1/2

AUGUST 2, 20262:31 PM ET

By

Willem Marx

Capital One bank has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Organizationover the closure of hundreds of bank accounts back in 2021, arguing in new papers that the shutdowns were the product of a months long anti-money-laundering review — not retaliation for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, as the Trump family businesses have claimed.

In a motion to dismiss the case filed Friday in a Florida federal court, Capital One's lawyers wrote that the bank's own filings and theTrump businesses' allegations "make clear that Capital One closed Plaintiffs' accounts for anti-money laundering ('AML') reasons."

The bank said the decisionfollowed "months of analysis and a careful review" by its financial-crimes team, which it said was staffed by employees with "decades of law enforcement experience."But the filings suggest the Trump Organization and affiliated entities were given no opportunity to address any money-laundering or compliance concerns before the accounts' closures.

It's unclear if subsequent banks for the Trump Organization have ever raised money laundering concerns, or what steps the organization took in response to Capital One's allegations. The Trump Organization didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The fight is one of several lawsuits Trump-aligned entities have brought against major banks since Trump returned to the White House.

A yearslong dispute over hundreds of accounts

The case centers on roughly 385 accounts tied to the Trump Organization, Eric Trump and a collection of affiliated businesses — including a winery, a bottled-water company and a golf course developer — that banked with Capital One for more than a decade before the accounts were shut down in mid-2021.

In an amended complaint filed earlier in July, the Trump-affiliated companies insisted theclosures had nothing to do with financial crime or money-laundering, but everything to do with politics.

The Trump Organization alleges Capital One moved to distance itself from Donald Trump after the Capitol riot and that thebank's cited anti-money-laundering rationale was invented after the fact to cover for that decision.

Capital One has flatly denied those assertions, with its lawyers arguing in the new filing that the Trump's theory rests on "cherry-picked quotations unsupported by the full context" of the bank's own records, and that nothing in the complaint shows the anti-money-laundering explanation was a cover story.

The bank's lawyers alsonoted that it kept its reasoning for the closures confidential at the time: it "never publicized the termination decision nor its confidential internal process giving rise to the closure," and gave the Trump companies months — plus several extensions — to move their money elsewhere, which they did.

Large sections of the Trump-linked amended complaint from July remain blacked out under a court-approved sealing order, including an entire portion titled "January 6, 2021: The Political Trigger."

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g-s1-136834/capital-one-trump-bank-anti-money-laundering

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The bank says its contract gave it broad discretion

Beyond disputing the facts, Capital One has reiterated in the new court filing it had the right to close any account "at any time, for any or no reason and without notice" — language the Trump companies do not dispute.

The presiding judge, Roy Altman, had already dismissed an earlier version of the lawsuit in March on similar grounds, ruling that a bank's reason for closing an account under that kind of open-ended contract clause generally cannot be second-guessed in court.

Capital One has asked Altman to dismiss the new complaint permanently this time, without another chance to refile.

The bank is also pushing back against a new claim the plaintiffs added in July:that Capital One defrauded them by staying silent about its reasoning.

Capital One's attorneys say the bank had no obligation to explain itself in the first place, and separately argue that federal banking-secrecy law would have barred it from disclosing internal anti-money-laundering findings even if it wanted to.

A parallel fight over what stays sealed

That secrecy law is also at the center of a related fight over what the public gets to see. In a separate motion filed Friday, Capital One asked the court tokeep sealed a portion of one exhibit that it says contains information protected under the Bank Secrecy Act, along with employee names, customer account numbers and unrelated compensation details.

The Trump companies do not oppose sealing the account numbers or that one Secrecy Act-related passage,but are contesting several other redactions Capital One wants to keep in place.

A separate case againstJPMorgan Chase, filed in January over accounts closed in the same period,makes similar claims.

President Trump signed an executive order last August directing regulators to crack down on what he and other conservatives call politically motivated 'debanking.'

Capital One itself has tangled with Trump before: in 2019, during his first term,the president sued the bank alongside Deutsche Bank to block them both from turning over his financial records to a Democratic-led congressional inquiry.

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g-s1-136834/capital-one-trump-bank-anti-money-laundering

Dr. Birx Does Damage Control, Throws Fauci Under the Bus After Disastrous Hearing (VIDEO)

by Cristina Laila Aug. 2, 2026

Former White House COVID Task Force Coordinator Dr. DeborahBirx threw Fauci under the busafter the former NIAID director refused to answer questions during last week’s senate hearing.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former NIAID director and face of America’s disastrous COVID response, finally appeared under subpoena last Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

After enjoying his celebrity status and appearing on all of the networks during the Covid pandemic, all of a sudden Fauci shut his mouth and refused to explain his actions.

Fauci (unlawfully) pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times.

Dr. Fauci’s former ‘partner-in-crime’ – Dr. Birx, AKA,‘scarf lady,’ threw him under the bus after the hearing.(she immediately disappeared to Africa after it was done. Why??? She is just as guilty.)

During an appearance on Newsmax, Dr.Birx claimed that the blue states “overclosed” and said it was all political.

“There were solutions, but it became very political, and we all have to be aware, because it was a presidential election year,” Birx said.

She continued, “It was really important for blue states to show that they were taking this very seriously, and they overclosed.And we just have to be honest that that happened!”

This is the same lady who told people to wear goggles and put on multiple masks.

Never forget that Birx was also caught flying to visit her family during Thanksgiving while telling everyone else not to visit theirs.

WATCH:

Last year, seven states accused Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, and others of heinous crimes, including murder, medical coercion, and even terrorism stemming from their COVID-era policies and decisions.

The list of individuals:

Dr. Anthony Fauci – Former NIAID Director

Dr. Deborah Birx – Former White House COVID Coordinator

Dr. Rochelle Walensky – Former CDC Director

Dr. Francis Collins – Former NIH Director

Dr. Cliff Lane – Deputy Director, NIAID

Dr. Stephen Hahn – Former FDA Commissioner

Dr. Janet Woodcock – Principal Deputy Commissioner, FDA (Arizona-specific)

Dr. Peter Hotez – Baylor vaccine promoter (Arizona-specific)

Dr. Robert Redfield – Former CDC Director

Dr. Peter Daszak – EcoHealth Alliance president and Wuhan collaborator

Dr. Ralph Baric – UNC virologist linked to gain-of-function research

Dr. Rick Bright – Former BARDA Director

Hospital administrators and care providers across Arizona and Pennsylvania

The referral letters outline a list of charges, including:

Murder

Negligent Homicide

Involuntary Manslaughter

Medical Coercion and Abuse

Kidnapping

Human Trafficking for Forced Labor

Racketeering

Operating a Corrupt Organization

Terrorism

(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/dr-birx-does-damage-control-throws-fauci-under/

Dr. Birx Throws Fauci Under the Bus

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BLM Rioters in Wisconsin Threaten to Kill Journalists Nick Sortor and Karlyn Borysenko While Preventing Them from Leaving Area and Attacking Car with VOMIT (VIDEOS). 1/2

By Cassandra MacDonald Aug. 2, 2026 12:00 pm

Independent journalists Nick Sortor and Karlyn Borysenko were in serious danger on Saturday night after being confronted, threatened with death, and having their vehicle attacked with vomit by Black Lives Matter rioters in a self-declared “autonomous zone” that has taken over several blocks of downtown Madison, Wisconsin.

The zone, known as the “Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone” or “CRAZ,” was formed in the days following the July 22 police shooting of Corey Ruiz, an armed serial felon who was killed while allegedly attacking an officer with a knife.

Protesters have built barricades of pallets, furniture, and spike strips, blocked streets, set up tents, and effectively seized control of the area around Williamson and Baldwin streets, using the playbook from Seattle’s 2020 CHOP/CHAZ.

Sortor, who was driving with Borysenko in the passenger seat, stopped near the encampment andstepped out of the vehicle in an attempt to make jokes and lighten the mood.

Instead, activists surrounded him, blocked him from returning to his car,swung a pole at him, sprayed vomit on him and his vehicle, damaged the left front quarter panel, and repeatedly threatened to kill him.

WATCH:

They also sprayed vomit on me and my vehicle before damaging the left front quarter panel.

Doctors and engineers, im sure. pic.twitter.com/RFJR1mS8BN

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 2, 2026

Video footage captured one individual warning,“hurry up and leave before your life ends out here” and saying “there’s a whole team of us.”

Borysenko, filming from the passenger seat with a hood over her head, captured the escalating confrontation.

WATCH:

Here’s my footage that I filmed from the passenger seat of @nicksortor’s car last night when we drove by the autonomous zone in Madison Wisconsin when he was attacked by them.

Nick got out and made jokes to them to try to get them to laugh.

It did not go well and then started… https://t.co/T2t8I7Kkshpic.twitter.com/R2vOQrgkDW

— Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cult leader (@DrKarlynB) August 2, 2026

She noted that the woman swinging the pole had previously appeared hostile toward her during an earlier visit to the zone and that the attackers did not appear to recognize either journalist, making the incident even more alarming because “this could happen to anyone.”

Sortor immediately called 911 after escaping.

Both journalists praised the responding Madison police officers as professional and helpful.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/blm-rioters-wisconsin-threaten-kill-journalists-nick-sortor/

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WATCH:

Nick Sorter (@nicksortor) and I almost got killed last night at the autonomous zone in Madison.

We were hanging out and decided to drive by. Nick got out of the car and made jokes. They started coming at him. I was screaming in the passenger seat.Nick called 911 directly after… https://t.co/ZxPzHcQKJ0pic.twitter.com/BDYKsa9LJT

— Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cult leader (@DrKarlynB) August 2, 2026

In follow-up posts, Borysenko suggested many of the individuals involved appeared to be connected to drug activity, with homeless people in the encampment allegedly being used as enforcers.

BTW all of those people are likely drug dealers who are selling drugs out of that car, or the people they are selling the drugs too.

The leftists are giving the homeless people in that encampment drugs to use them as their security attack dogs.

— Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cult leader (@DrKarlynB) August 2, 2026

(https://x.com/DrKarlynB/status/2083917688502456459

Speaking to The Gateway Pundit, Borysenko said, “Last night, we drove by the autonomous zone in Madison. Nick got out of the car to talk to the activists and cracked a few jokes. They got aggressive and violent and threatened multiple times to destroy the car and kill him. It was absolutely terrifying. One of the same people had been aggressive towards me in the autonomous zone earlier in the day. Hopefully the city will allow the cops to go and arrest the people who did this.”

Sortor called for federal involvement, arguing that allowing violent anarchists to control city blocks should never be tolerated.

Local reporting confirms the zone has disrupted businesses, blocked emergency access, and drawn criticism from Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, yet it has remained in place into early August.

As of Sunday, no arrests related to the specific assault on the journalists had been publicly announced.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/blm-rioters-wisconsin-threaten-kill-journalists-nick-sortor/

NEW: Former GOP Rep Kay Granger Dead at 83

By Cristina Laila Aug. 2, 2026 8:20 pm

Former Congresswoman Kay Granger passed away on Sunday after transitioning to an assisted living facility.

She was 83 years old.

Granger represented Texas’ 12th congressional district for 28 years and served on the House Appropriations Committee.

Full statement from Speaker Johnson:

Kay Granger devoted her life to serving her Fort Worth, Texas community — as a teacher and businesswoman, on the Fort Worth Zoning Commission and City Council, as Mayor, and in Congress for nearly three decades, where she also served as Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Throughout her career, she broke barriers for women in public service. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Fort Worth, the first Republican woman elected to represent Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first Republican woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee.

Kelly and I send our prayers to her family, loved ones, and the Fort Worth community as we remember her extraordinary life of service and lasting legacy.

She was a dear friend who will be greatly missed.

Recall that in July 2024, Granger suddenly disappeared from the public eye after she cast her final vote against an amendment to reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1.

A curious reporter at the local Dallas Express newspaper did some digging on Granger’s whereabouts and has finally gave her constituents some answers.

The reporter received a tip-off from a local resident that Granger was residing at an assisted living facility specializing in memory care.

In 2023, Granger announced her retirement from Congress.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/former-gop-rep-kay-granger-dead-83/

California Man Arrested After Police Catch Him Stealing Unvoted Ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona

by Jordan Conradson Aug. 2, 2026

A man fromCalifornia was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, on felony charges after US Postal Inspectors caught him stealing mail,including unvoted mail-in ballots, from a USPS collection box.

The suspect, 26-year-old Richard Anthony Ramos Jr. of Stockton, California,was arrested on July 21with several ballots in his car.

Notably, the Primary elections in Arizona were also held on July 21.

The scheme reportedly involved using a cardboard box into the collection bin to trap outgoing mail, which he would then fish out.

It is unclear whether his target was the mail-in ballots and what he intended to do with them.

Via ABC 15:

Investigators reportedly believe that Ramos had been stealing the mail since May 2026.

Postal Inspectors began surveilling the drop box location on July 14 after receiving multiple reports of boxes being found in late June and early July, according to ABC 15.

Ramos was finally busted on July 21 when inspectorswatched him pull a trap containing outgoing mail out of the mailbox.

A spokesperson for the Maricopa County Recorder’s office said, “The postal inspectors contacted us regarding the incident and provided us with the unvoted yellow carrier envelopes that were in the mix they seized.”

They added, “The Recorder’s Office documented receipt from the postal inspector who brought themdirectly to MCTEC. The envelopes were not voted ballots but were instead outbound ballot packets. The particular voters were promptly reissued outbound ballot packets.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/california-man-arrested-after-police-catch-him-stealing/

MUST SEE: Nothing Can Prepare You for the Women’s Pro Baseball League Opener’s Shockingly Strange Rendition of National Anthem

by Cassandra MacDonald Aug. 2, 2026

The inaugural game of the Women’s Pro Baseball League kicked off this weekend with a national anthem performance that quickly became the talk of social media for all the wrong reasons.

Motown legend Martha Reeves and two other women delivered a now-viral rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” that left many in the crowd and on social media stunned.

The league’s first professional game in nearly three decades featured the Los Angeles Queens defeating the New York Heights 10-8 at Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois.

Unfortunately, the pregame ceremony overshadowed the game itself because of the anthem’s unhinged delivery.

The video was viewed nearly two million times on X alone by Sunday morning.

Reeves, 85, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee best known as the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, led the group in the brutal performance.

Outkick reports:

Mo’ne Davis may have been the most recognizable face on the field. Davis, who captured the hearts and minds of sports fans during the Little League World Series in 2014, started in center field for the Queens. She managed to cross the plate once in Los Angeles’ win.

Queens left fielder and pitcher Maggie Foxx, was 2-for-2 with two RBI. She also struck out two batters.

“When I walked on the field I started crying because of how much this moment meant, and how much it meant to everybody,” she said. “It means everything to us.”

Heights catcher Denae Benites was 4-for-4 with two RBI on the evening. She spoke about 99-year-old Maybelle Blair throwing out the first pitch. Blair played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which ran from 1943 to 1954 and inspired “A League of Their Own.”

“I think that’s pretty incredible,” Benites said. “Maybelle’s been sticking with us since the beginning of this journey. She’s paved a path for us, really. … She’s a special person and I’m so happy that she got to make it out here and do that today.”

Kendall BakerYahoo

@kendallbaker

Absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the national anthem at the first Women’s Pro Baseball League tonight

1:50 AM · Aug 2, 2026

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https://x.com/kendallbaker/status/2083732108166533276

Court Sentences 350-Pound Minnesota Teacher Who Stepped on Sixth Graders’ Backs as Punishment

Lowell Cauffiel1 Aug 2026

A 350-pound Minnesota science teacher learned this week what his own punishment will be for stepping on his sixth-grade students’ backs “like a step stool” as punishment for not taking an evacuation drill seriously.

One boy, who ended up going to the hospital, was one of three students who received the educator’s bizarre discipline in February of 2025.

An Otter Tail County District Court judge this week ordered Jason Rogers, 49, to surrender his teaching license, write letters of apology to his victims, perform community service and report for two years of supervised probation.

The former teacher pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor assault charges in the case. If Rogers successfully completes the probation, the charges will be dismissed.

The teacher’s inexplicable behavior, which occurred in the small, 500-student Underwood School District 175 miles north of Minneapolis, did more than make his victims squirm, according to news reports.

A sheriff’s deputy was called to a local hospital for one of the students, who had begun crying when he was stepped on without warning “like a stepping stool,” according to the original criminal complaint.

According to the Minnesota Star Tribune’s reporting last year:

The following day, Rogers told a detective that his students were asked to line up against the wall and sit during a lockdown drill, but a couple of students decided to lie on their stomachs next to the door; he said he “didn’t feel the class was taking the drill seriously” and then “placed his foot onto the lower back” of the student and removed it when the boy started to cry, the complaint states.

Another student told the detective that Rogers stepped on the boy with both feet. Rogers then told the detective “he might have stepped on [the student] with both feet” and admitted to stepping on two other students, too, the complaint states.

Rogers reportedly taught science to the fifth and sixth graders, as well as serving as a wrestling and junior high football coach.

Rogers resigned from his teaching role in April 2025. He could have been sentenced to up to a year in and jail and a $3000 fine, the New York Post reported..

Instead, the Court fined him $2,250 with no jail time. He must also complete an anger management course and perform 90 hours of community service.

Despite Rogers losing his teaching license, his lawyer Daniel Repka said the ex-educator is a “good guy,” the Post noted.

“He made a really unfortunate decision that led to the end of his career, and he just wants to move on,” the attorney said

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/08/01/court-sentences-350-pound-minnesota-teacher-who-stepped-sixth-graders-backs-punishment/

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How could they ever allow him to teach for the rest of awful gross life?