Former President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social on Friday that he had received an endorsement from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who appeared to know nothing about the development and immediately denied it.
Trump’s Truth Social account reads, “New: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has endorsed Trump for president.”
As of Friday afternoon, the lie had garnered 6,910 likes and 2,270 “ReTruths.”
Dimon’s spokesperson categorically denied these claims.
“Jamie Dimon didn’t support anyone,” Joe Evangelisti told CNBC. “He did not support any candidate.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
When an NBC reporter asked Trump about the post, the Republican presidential candidate said he knew nothing about it.
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At the time this article was published, the false endorsement still remained on Trump’s Truth social accounts, more than three hours after it was first posted, even after he posted several more.
Dimon has been critical of Trump in the past, suggesting in 2018 that the then-president wasn’t very smart.
“I think I can beat Trump because I’m just as tough and I’m smarter than he is,” Dimon said at an event in New York. “But this wealthy New Yorker actually made money. “It wasn’t a gift from dad.” (Dimon later retracted his remarks.)
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