Jamie Dimon had lunch with Kamala Harris — weeks after uproar over saying Trump ‘kind of right’: report
JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon reportedly had lunch with Kamala Harris at the White House last week — after rankling the Biden administration earlier this year by saying Donald Trump was “kind of right” on a number of key policy issues.
The private, one-on-one get together between the Wall Street titan and the vice president was not disclosed on Harris’s public schedule, according to the Financial Times, which cited unnamed sources.
Dimon — who has described himself as “barely a Democrat” — separately met with White House chief of staff Jeff Zients as well as federal regulators and members of Congress during his time in Washington according to FT.
It couldn’t be learned what was discussed during Dimon’s lunch with Harris, or any of his other meetings with government officials last week, FT reported.
Representatives of JPMorgan declined The Post’s request for comment.
Dimon’s White House visit comes roughly one month after reports that the 67-year-old banking boss was iced out of the Joe Biden administration’s good graces for apparently endorsing Republican policies and calling Donald Trump “kind of right.”
In recent months, Dimon has been labeled “MAGA curious” by White House insiders after telling Democrats to “respect” Trump’s supporters during an eyebrow-raising live TV interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.
“If you look at, just take a step back, be honest. He’s kind of right about NATO. Kind of right about immigration. He grew the economy quite well… tax reform worked. He was right about some of China,” Dimon told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Sources told The Post last month that the interview marked a point of no return for what was already a tense relationship between Dimon and Biden, which gained steam after Dimon urged Democrats to support Haley in the GOP primary at the 2023 DealBook Summit in November.
“Even if you’re a very liberal Democrat, I urge you, help Nikki Haley too,” he said at the time, also noting that if Trump were to return to the Oval Office in January 2025, he would work with him.
“I’m not taking myself off the playing field,” Dimon said.
As a result, Dimon is “not going to be sitting in any more meetings with the president,” a White House insider said.
Dimon remains perhaps the only prominent CEO of a corporate giant willing to publicly wade into political conversations, especially after historically outspoken BlackRock chief Larry Fink said recently that he is “ashamed” of his involvement in the ESG [environmental, social and governance] debate.
Dimon, meanwhile, has weighed in on so many political topics that in 2018, it was rumored that he was seriously considering a 2020 presidential bid.
JPMorgan, however, has since denied that the rumblings were true.
