Friendly reminder that Wells Fargo is a crime syndicate masquerading as a bank. They committed mass identity theft against their own customers and got a slap on the wrist.
I like Bill Burr’s bit on how corporate is the mafia of yore, it’s just legally sanctioned now.
I had a fake credit card account opened for me by Wells Fargo. It caused me to accidentally transfer money to the wrong account (from savings to the credit card), so I tried moving the -$10 from the credit card to my checking account, and then I was charged a cash advance fee, and then an overdraft fee. The class action settlement money didn't even cover one of the fees 🙃
On the bright side, if they do it to you again, they're now able to charge even more for the overdraft fees.
Remember back in 2016 when he ran on “drain the swamp?”
Well, you see. When you drain a swamp, it means you get rid of the clean water, and all you are left with is mud and rotting matter. So, I think he is succeeding.
Trump is draining the "swamp". Too bad the swamp was all the decent people in government.
i guess you shouldn't trust a promise like that when it comes directly from the most swamp creature lookin ass motherfucker you've ever seen... apart from Steve Bannon
Rumor is he smells swampy too.
I hadn't heard of this but it looks like snopes has an acceptable write up. They do state that no one has come out and said it was a quid pro quo, but no other reason was given. Just leaving the link here in case other people are interested.
ETA: to be clear Trump and his admin are obviously corrupt. I just wasn't aware of the particulars of this situation.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/05/02/trump-wells-fargo-inauguration-donation/
Appreciate you doing the research. I cannot stand Trump and his cronies, but there's been so much rage bait and sensationalist headlines over the past year that it's hard to paint a coherent picture of what the hell is actually going on.
I’ve noticed Snopes seems very eager to sane wash Trump in general. They’ll do things like weasel their way around the allegations related to his child sexual abuse especially.
Honestly, Snopes really fell off in the past ten years.
Very possible, but also they are trying to be a "facts" based site so allegations are not really a thing they can adjudicate without compromising that. Like in this scenario there's no exact evidence to point to other than circumstantial so they have to say that it has not been proven to be true. I appreciate that in news sources. Obviously I can read into things and draw my own conclusions but I need to be able to go to a place that lays out the "facts" as clearly as possible without editorializing. Media used to do that more when they had to appeal to more people because there were less sources. Now the media landscape is fragmented and you can find "news" sources saying just anything so they're less incentivized to even appear unbiased.
Trump is obviously a terrible person and just having the facts themselves laid out should sway any normal person. Unfortunately that's not what we have.
