Exclusive | Jamie Dimon has been secretly communicating with Donald Trump on White House agenda for months: sources
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 said.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 and stop 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 the president-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...