The House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has released a shocking report on how the unelected Biden regime used banks to spy on the financial transactions of Trump supporters. This comes on the heels of a previous report that the IRS is now monitoring all Americans’ bank transactions in real-time with the use of an AI program. All this is being done without warrants and in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. The bottom line is that if you are a Trump supporter, the FBI now has the last four years of your private bank transactions.
The report states that the FBI pressured Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Chase to turn over customer data from Trump supporters. The bureau leveraged the Bank Secrecy Act to coerce the big banks into handing over customer data, including the location, time, date, and description of digital transactions. This included all debit card purchases, online purchases, and purchases made with smartphone apps.
The Bank Secrecy Act requires banks to file a suspicious activity report (SAR) whenever an individual moves around large amounts of money. This can be either cash or big digital transactions that involve a lot of money. For example, if a fake president sent his crack-snorting, hooker-cavorting son to Communist China to rake in millions of dollars to subvert American foreign policy and diverted the funds through 20 shell companies to launder it, that would be grounds for a bank to file a SAR.
But that’s not how the FBI was having the banks file SARs. They were filing reports on trivial purchases at the grocery store, if Trump supporters were making the purchases.
Once the FBI obtained this huge volume of personal financial data on Trump supporters, they created a massive internal database with it. This isn’t some conspiracy theory. This is what Congress is saying the FBI did with your financial information.
The FBI then created profiles of every Trump supporter in America and made the database searchable for FBI employees. No warrants were required and any low-level FBI employee could search it to see whether Trump supporters were making political donations, purchasing Bibles or sex toys, or making a trip to the gun store for some ammo. It was the most invasive and illegal search and seizure of private, Fourth Amendment-protected information in US history.
Over three years, 14,000 federal employees accessed the database and searched the private financial transactions of 3.3 million Trump supporters. No warrants were obtained to sift through all that data. Those were just the illegal searches that were conducted in 2023. They started creating the database back in 2021, immediately after the peaceful election protest on January 6.
The FBI is still using the database today to hunt down January 6ers. A grandmother who peacefully walked into the Capitol building four years ago was just arrested this week and shackled in leg irons by the FBI. The FBI discovered that the nearly blind grandmother from Missouri had used her debit card in Washington, DC that day. They “caught” her using this illegal database.
The House subcommittee was able to identify 13 financial institutions that the FBI had coerced into handing over all the data on Trump supporters. Other institutions included US Bank, Charles Schwab, Western Union, and even PayPal.
The report notes that the Treasury Department got in on the illegal searches as well. It advised the banks to turn over the transactions of Trump supporters who shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, and Bass Pro Shops to watch for “extremists.” As if any Trump supporter would shop at Dick’s Sporting Goods.