The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is dropping its lawsuit against the company that runs the Zelle payment platform and three U.S. banks as federal agencies continue to pull back on previous enforcement actions now that President Donald Trump is back in office.

In December a federal regulator sued JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, claiming the banks failed to protect hundreds of thousands of consumers from rampant fraud on Zelle, in violation of consumer financial laws.

In the federal civil complaint, the CFPB asserted that the banks rushed to get the peer-to-peer payments platform to market without effective safeguards against fraud and then, after consumers complained about being defrauded on the service, largely denied them relief.

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    I mean what even is that? Is he profiting from the scamming somehow?

    His constituents would be the main ones falling for the scams.

    I would love for conservative rural voters to know the contempt trump has for them.

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        It actually matters quite a lot because some of them are going to ask why and you’re not going to have an answer, thereby accomplishing nothing but emboldening them

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            11 hours ago

            “Did he say he wants us to be scammed? There must be a reason this that we don’t understand”

            Now what? You don’t have a reason he would want that and they know it.

            You don’t get these people on our side by making shit up and giving them reasonable outs

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              They don’t use reason, why would I?

              “He’s the one doing this to you. Ask him why he’s doing this to you.”

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                10 hours ago

                Because you’re just wasting your time lol

                A lot of otherwise reasonable people got swept up in this for one reason or another. There’s no saving some of them but you’re not gonna win anyone over by lying to them

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                  They were won over by someone lying to them. You’re not gonna reason them out of something they didn’t reason themselves into.

                  Fight fire with fire.