(Mr. Ackermann said in an interview that he didn’t recall being involved.) In February 2013, Mr. Jain accompanied Rosemary T. Vrablic — Mr. Trump’s personal banker at Deutsche Bank — to Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to two former executives. Over lunch, Mr. Jain remarked to Mr. Trump that he was surprised by his relatively low levels of debt. Ms. Vrablic told her colleagues that Mr. Jain had sounded upbeat about Mr. Trump’s finances. In 2016, the board of directors commissioned a report into how the bank had become so enmeshed with Mr. Trump.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2019 23:13 UTC