Exclusive | Sen. Elizabeth Warren presses Eric Trump for update on Capital One de-banking lawsuit
Sen.Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, is asking Eric Trump to confirm whether his family will resume legal action against Capital One over allegations it de-banked family-linked accounts, The Post has learned.The far-left pol asked for answers on whether the Trump family will re-file its lawsuit against Capital One by an upcoming deadline this month, after accusing the bank of blocking the president and his family’s accounts out of “woke” political motives.The inquiry is part of Warren’s probe into Brian Johnson, a Capital One exec whom Trump nominated to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which the White House has gutted.
His nomination is currently awaiting Senate approval.“In recent months, your father’s opinion has been very important to my Republican colleagues,” Warren wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Eric Trump, who runs The Trump Organization with brother Don Jr.“Given the Trump family’s allegations against Capital One and the role the CFPB would play in addressing concerns about de-banking, it would be helpful for the Committee to understand your views on Capital One as it considers Mr.Johnson’s nomination,” she added.“It would also be helpful to understand your family’s plans, if any, to re-file the claims you brought against Capital One by Judge Altman’s July 17, 2026, deadline.”In March 2025, the Trump family sued Capital One for allegedly de-banking hundreds of accounts in 2021 that were tied to the president’s family members and held millions of dollars.The lawsuit claimed Capital One terminated the accounts due to “woke” beliefs that “it needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views.”“I can’t tell you how hard it is to change more than 300 bank accounts – and for no reason whatsoever,” Eric Trump told Fox News Digital at the time.
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