Jamie Dimon Calls For 'Constructive Dialogue' in Leaked Employee Memo After Trump Rally Tragedy

Following nan attempted assassination of erstwhile President Donald Trump connected Saturday, galore business leaders and CEOs have made nationalist statements done societal media.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon addressed his institution about nan calamity that left 1 bystander dormant and 2 critically injured successful an soul memo sent to each labor connected Sunday.

Business Insider obtained nan 83-word memo.

"We are profoundly saddened by nan governmental unit and nan assassination effort connected erstwhile President Trump past evening," it reads. "On behalf of our full activity team, our thoughts coming are pinch nan erstwhile President, his family and nan families of those who were tragically injured and killed."

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"We must each guidelines firmly together against immoderate acts of hate, intimidation aliases unit that activity to undermine our populist aliases inflict harm," it continued. "It is only done constructive speech that we tin tackle our nation's toughest challenges."

Dimon has a analyzable history pinch Trump but has precocious shown support for immoderate of his erstwhile policies.

In a May 2023 question and reply pinch Bloomberg Television, Dimon criticized Trump's sentiment that nan U.S. should see a indebtedness default to curb authorities spending, thing Dimon said was conscionable "one much point he doesn't cognize very overmuch about."

In November 2023, Trump came aft Dimon connected nan societal media level Trump owns, Truth Social, saying he's a "highly overrated globalist" and slammed him for "quietly pushing" erstwhile South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley arsenic a Republican statesmanlike campaigner for 2024.

"I've ne'er been a large Jamie Dimon fan, but had to unrecorded pinch this feline erstwhile he came begging to nan White House," Trump wrote. "I conjecture I don't person to unrecorded pinch him anymore, and that's a really bully thing!"

However, successful January 2024, Dimon told CNBC that Trump had been "kind of right" astir respective cardinal issues and urged Democrats to "think a small much carefully" erstwhile criticizing Trump supporters.

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"Just return a measurement backmost and beryllium honest: He was benignant of correct astir NATO. He was benignant of correct astir immigration. He grew nan system rather well. Tax betterment worked," Dimon said during a sheet astatine nan World Economic Forum successful Davos, astatine nan time. "He wasn't incorrect astir immoderate of these captious issues and that's why they're voting for him."

Trump is presently successful Milwaukee astatine nan Republican National Convention.