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Head of Colo.’s 4th-largest bank: ‘I think I could beat Trump’

Jamie Dimon also threw shade on Trump as a businessman: "And by the way, this wealthy New Yorker (pointing to himself) actually earned his money. It wasn't a gift from Daddy."

Credit: J. Scott Applewhite

FILE- In this June 13, 2012, file photo, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

COLORADO POLITICS — The head of a bank with 84 branches in metro Denver says he’s pretty sure he could lick President Donald Trump (politics-wise).

“I think I could beat Trump,” Jamie Dimon, chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., said while answering questions at a charity-promotional event held Wednesday at the financial giant’s New York headquarters, per CNBC.

“I’m as tough as he is, I’m smarter than he is,” he added. “I would be fine. He could punch me all he wants. It wouldn’t work with me. I’d fight right back.”

He added: “I grew up in a poorer part of Queens than he did, but I am a banker. I am part of the elite. … I don’t think the American public looks at Trump as part of the elite. They look at him as the upstart who punched the elite in the nose every day.”

Read more at Colorado Politics: https://bit.ly/2N9agHz.