The ideological left has increasingly employed a new weapon against its political opponents in the form of "debanking," or cutting allegedly controversial businesses and individuals off from the financial industry.

Former and future first lady Melania Trump, along with her son Barron, are reported to have been victims of debanking in recent years because of their familial affiliation with President-elect Donald Trump, Florida's Voice reported.

One top official in the Sunshine State is warning that the disturbing and possibly unconstitutional practice will soon lead to investigations and an overdue "reckoning" for those who've taken such actions.

Melania claims she and Barron were debanked

In her recent self-titled memoir, Melania Trump revealed that she and her son had been unceremoniously debanked in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot of 2021 for no apparent reason other than their relation to the former Republican president.

"I was shocked and dismayed to learn that my longtime bank decided to terminate my account and deny my son the opportunity to open a new one," the former and future first lady wrote.

"This decision appeared to be rooted in political discrimination," she added, according to The Telegraph.

Florida's pro-Trump CFO calls for a "day of reckoning" over debanking

That and other claims of debanking have caught the attention of Florida's Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, who is a staunch supporter of President-elect Trump and his family.

"I cannot wait to open up the hood on how these federal agencies worked with lending institutions to de-bank Americans," Patronis wrote in an X post last week.

He added, "The unelected bureaucrats who targeted gun owners, Christians, and Trump supports are going to have a day of reckoning."

Debanking likely contributed to Trump's electoral win

That reckoning may already have begun, at least in part, as The Telegraph reported last week that the burgeoning debanking scandal is arguably one of the reasons why so many billionaires, particularly from the cryptocurrency and tech industries, threw their wealth and support behind President-elect Trump in the 2024 election.

In what has been dubbed "Operation Chokepoint 2.0," an apparent reprisal of the Obama administration's controversial "Operation Chokepoint," it is alleged that federal agencies under President Joe Biden have pressured major financial institutions to cut ties with and close the accounts of supposedly controversial businesses and individuals, who more often than not are political opponents.

The tactic works to essentially economically starve the targets by rendering it nearly impossible for them to conduct business through normal means like banks and other financial institutions.

"This is one of the reasons we ended up supporting Trump," billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently told podcaster Joe Rogan. "We’ve had, like, 30 founders debanked in the last four years."

It is unclear what Trump intends to do about debanking in his second term as president, but The Telegraph noted that the effort begun under former President Barack Obama was effectively halted during Trump's first term, only to be resurrected and expanded under the Biden administration.