'Somebody is using his name!' Trump gives odd excuse for fake CEO endorsement
Former President Donald Trump took no responsibility for pushing a fake endorsement from prominent investment bank CEO Jamie Dimon on Friday, according to a new report.
The former president bragged about the supposed endorsement on his Truth Social platform Friday morning, saying, “New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for President."
Mere minutes after the post went live, a spokesperson for Dimon told CNBC, “Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anyone. He has not endorsed a candidate.”
Indeed, when Trump got together with Dimon and several business leaders earlier this year to sell his tax plans, reports show the the former president was met with laughter.
When reporters asked him about the endorsement flub in Augusta, Georgia, however, Trump brushed it off as not his fault, according to The New York Times.
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“I don’t know anything about it,” said Trump. “Somebody put it up — no, I don’t know.”
When he was told Dimon's spokesman had debunked it, Trump said, “Well, then, somebody is using his name.”
Trump appears to have gotten the misinformation from "Two right-leaning accounts sympathetic to the former president" that posted the false claim about 12:30 p.m., according to the Times.
Trump reportedly left up the post on Truth Social long after being told it was false.
Dimon has long "fascinated" Trump, the report continued, and noted "Mr. Trump’s team had hoped for Mr. Dimon as a potential speaker at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July, but he was among several people they hoped to have appear who never did, according to multiple people with knowledge of the planning."
This comes after Trump caught heat on social media for promoting a false, AI-generated claim that megastar singer/songwriter Taylor Swift had endorsed him.
Swift put out a statement endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.