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 calling out President Trump for nominating an exec from the same bank his family sued for alleged de-banking, The Post has learned. Brian Johnson, Capital One’s vice president of compliance, has been getting grilled by Warren over his nomination to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His candidacy comes after Trump’s family sued Capital One for allegedly de-banking hundreds of Trump accounts. Warren unscored those events in a Thursday letter to Eric Trump, asking him if his family plans to press ahead with its legal case.

The Trump Organization and Capital One did not respond to The Post's requests for comment. 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 hi...