JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon breaks silence on Trump win and issues message about cabinet role

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon broke his soundlessness contiguous over Donald Trump's US statesmanlike election win.

Dimon, on with different apical slope executives, issued a memo to staff congratulating Trump for defeating Kamala Harris. 

This comes contempt Dimon - worthy astir $2.4 cardinal - privately backing Harris ahead of Tuesday's vote. He had expressed concerns implicit Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results.

It besides emerged Wednesday that Dimon volition not instrumentality up immoderate connection to articulation Trump's medication - amid rumors helium was wanted to instrumentality up a relation astatine the White House.

Instead, a slope root told Reuters that helium volition stay with JPMorgan Chase, wherever helium has served arsenic CEO for 19 years. 

Dimon had precocious been the taxable of speculation from some Republicans and Democrats arsenic a imaginable campaigner for Treasury Secretary. 

In the connection from JPMorgan Chase connected Wednesday, executives from the slope referenced a connection from Dimon arsenic polls closed connected Tuesday night.

'As Jamie said yesterday, we indispensable present "begin the enactment of bringing our federation unneurotic and focusing connected the pressing economical and planetary issues earlier us,"' the memo read. 

'Our steadfast has a agelong past of moving crossed the governmental spectrum and looks guardant to engaging the caller medication and elected officials successful some parties.'

Dimon called this year's statesmanlike predetermination 'one of the hardest fought and astatine times divisive elections successful our caller history,' successful his connection to the Wall Street Journal yesterday.

'Soon it volition beryllium clip for each of america to unite down our President elite and each of our nationalist leaders,' Dimon said.

'We indispensable statesman the enactment of bringing our federation unneurotic and focusing connected the pressing economical and planetary issues earlier us.'

Dimon privately backed Harris during the statesmanlike predetermination contempt praising immoderate of Trump's policies, according to an probe conducted by the New York Times.

The businessman reportedly did not endorse Harris publically owed to his fearfulness of retaliation from Trump.

'With Jamie, it's absorbing due to the fact that helium styles himself arsenic a large person transcending his ain concern needs,' Robert Reich, erstwhile caput of labour successful the Clinton administration, told the New York Times.

'If helium were truly acrophobic astir the federation and each of the values that helium says he's acrophobic about, not lone would helium not beryllium supporting Trump - he'd beryllium vocally and angrily and with each of his mightiness making definite that Trump did not get different ace astatine the White House.'

Dimon, a registered Democrat, issued a connection aboriginal past period denying his endorsement of Trump.

'I'm not endorsing anyone astatine this time. I walk much of my clip connected policy,' Dimon said via a spokesperson astatine the time. 

'What's the argumentation we request that tin truly assistance some the world, overseas policy, and domestically?.'

The JPMorgan Chase CEO was the taxable of speculation for weeks arsenic a campaigner for Treasury caput by Republicans and Democrats.

Dimon discussed a slim to nary accidental of taking a elder US authorities relation with a Wells Fargo banal expert past month.

'I deliberation the accidental of that is astir nil, and astir apt I'm not going to bash it,' Dimon said.

'I thin to beryllium doing what I'm doing - I astir warrant I'll beryllium doing this - for a agelong play of time, oregon astatine slightest until the committee kicks maine out.'

The JPMorgan Chase squad besides congratulated Vice President-elect JD Vance, and US representatives elected to service successful Congress and successful authorities and section offices.

'JPMorganChase strives to beryllium a spot wherever radical from antithetic backgrounds and beliefs tin travel unneurotic with a communal consciousness of intent and mission,' the memo read. 

'We are hopeful for the aboriginal and the relation we volition play tackling immoderate of the astir pressing challenges facing Americans and our country, together.'