Last week, Bloomberg reported that, following the surprise results of the 2016 election, Deutsche Bank executives were “so concerned” the Trump Organization would default on its $340 million worth of loans while Trump was in office that they considered extending the repayment dates until 2025, after the end of a potential second term. This, they figured, would pre-empt the public-relations disaster of either 1) not collecting the money and being seen as in Trump’s pocket, or 2) risking retaliation by a vengeful president—a possibility an ex-Deutsche source told my colleague William D. Cohan that the bank is “particularly afraid of at the moment, given how much regulatory hot water it has been in over the years for a variety of reasons.” In the end, the bank decided to do nothing and, per Bloomberg, chose instead to simply not do any new business with the Trump Organization during the duration of Trump’s presidency.

But, of course, Democrats want to know about the period in which the bank was more than happy to do business with a guy famous for being bad at business. “All we know is that there was one period of Donald Trump’s before he became president where he was spending cash for his developments all around the world,“ Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, chairman of a subcommittee with jurisdiction over money-laundering issues, told Politico. “Very few people pay cash when they do a big development . . . He was paying cash at a time when he wasn’t supposed to have money. We’re going to have to find out why.”

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