Deutsche Bank are also linked to some of Trump's business dealings which are being investigated in various jurisdictions, US and international. I'm not predicting the outcomes of them, but if it ends up being mores bad news for the orange man, its going to look very bad for this bank too.
"..banks in general are always good to put the lid on issues." Too good at it, often enabled by various national so-called 'regulatory' authorities.
A few links to back up what I said - "The Trump Organization is under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and New York Attorney General and both agencies have subpoenaed the bank about its lending relationship with the company. " The first might help explain why he often took pops at CNN.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/22/business/trump-deutsche-bankers-resign/index.html
"Two House committees have stepped up their investigation of Donald Trump’s business operations by issuing subpoenas for a range of documents from the institution that has long been his main financial prop,
Deutsche Bank."
Subpoenas issued to German bank that has long been Trump’s financial ally, in investigation of possible illicit financial activities
www.theguardian.com
"The checkered relationship between the German bank and Trump goes back to 1998 when it loaned the future president around $425 million to finance renovations of a tower at 40 Wall Street and the construction of a skyscraper next to the
United Nations.
In 2003, Deutsche Bank helped Trump's casino company sell hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds but Trump's company defaulted in 2004, leaving the bank's clients with losses. Trump also sued the bank's real estate division in 2008 after defaulting on a $40 million repayment that funded the construction of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago.
But the bank stood by him and loaned him more money to pay off existing debt. The total lending by Deutsche Bank to Trump and his companies since the 1990s is more than $2.5 billion, although the president has paid most of this back.
The German bank now has around $340 million in loans outstanding to the Trump Organization, according to a Reuters report in November citing bank officials and filings made to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics."
The bank has loaned more than $2 billion to the president and his company since 1998.
www.newsweek.com