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The Trump organization sued Capital first IN Florida On Friday for the alleged “unjustified” closing over 300 bank accounts of the company on the heels January 62021, riots in USA by the crowd of the president Donald TrumpProponents.
The claim stated that Trump's organization and related entities “have a reason to think that the unilateral capital decision was made as a result of political and social motivations and the necessary beliefs” awakened “that he must distance himself from President Trump and his conservative political views.”
“Basically the capital of the first” de-banned “reasons, because one capital believed that the political wave was currently favored by this,” says Trump's organization in a civil case submitted in a case submitted to Eleventh court Court in Miami-Dade.
The lawsuit strives for a declarative judgment that the bank incorrectly terminated Trump Companies in June 2021, as well as penalty and other cash damages for what allegedly the lawsuit was the “destructive influence” of deadlines on the ability of companies to transaction and access to their funds.
The closure took place over four months after the riots in the US Capitol, which began after a week of Trump, falsely claimed that he won the presidential election in 2020 on the former president Joe Biden.
The reasons for the lawsuit are Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, DJT Holdings, managing member of DJT Holdings, DTTM Operations and Eric Trump, son of the president, who together with his brother Donald Trump Jr. He runs the Trump organization.
The son of the former US president Donald Trump, Eric Trump, participates on the second day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024.
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The complaint says that the plaintiffs and associate entities kept hundreds of bills in the Capital for decades before closing them. Eric Trump said that the amount of compensation that companies have had is “millions of dollars”.
Alejandro Brito, a lawyer who represents the Trump organization in the lawsuit, said CNBC that the company “is considering other lawsuits against financial organizations that have been involved in similar proceedings.”
Brito said that the capital's actions “were an attack on freedom of speech.”
The bank spokesman wrote We -mail to CNBC: “Capital they are not there and does not close customer accounts for political reasons.”
The logo for a company dealing with Capital One Financial Corp consumers is visible at its headquarters on January 20, 2023 at McLean, Virginia.
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Eric Trump said in a statement: “Capital One decision about” escorting “our company, after more than a decade, was a clear attack on freedom of speech and a free enterprise that flies in the face of the rules and freedoms in bed that define our country.”
“What's more, the arbitrary closing of these accounts, without a reasonable reason, reflects a broader effort to silence and undermine the success of Trump's organization and those who dare to express their political views,” said Eric Trump.