FBN’s Charlie Gasparino reports that Wall Street’s love affair with President Obama seems to be over with the CEOs of the biggest Wall Street firms.
According to Gasparino, senior officials at the big banks say their relationships with the White House are now at a critical stage, with top executives such as Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein and Larry Fink openly expressing their dismay over the president’s anti-Wall Street rhetoric and his calls for new regulations on the financial industry. These prominent execs are openly saying that they doubt they will support the president as they did in 2008.
“If the election was held today, Obama would lose the senior Wall Street executives..” one senior Wall Street executive who frequently meets with the CEOs of the top firms told Gasparino. “They thought they were voting for a moderate and now they think they’ve gotten something else.”
According to one Wall Street CEO, the Obama as president is much different than Obama the candidate who wooed top executives in 2007 and 2008.
