Readit News(FWIW, it did end well, as going with a relatively large federally insured bank meant that no one lost any money during the crash)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686140
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5mghcxCabxuaK4WTs/...
Neither of these were "publicly anti-Trump" as much as Garry Tan has been.
Actually, where'd you even get that from? I cannot with my life imagine that Dalton would publicly post about politics. I've googled around a bit and found nothing either.
The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.
If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018? Maybe you're getting tricked by the fact that 2018 was 8 years ago?
Seems like Capital One is very excited on the deal and announced it earlier while Brex hid the announcement and made it hard to find. (It's on the Brex [0] journal directory, but you cannot see it featured on its front page)
What (really) happened?
Either way, my point is it's an extreme stretch to believe their departure, Trump, and crypto stablecoins are somehow related.