The Trump organization sued on Friday in Capital One in Florida for allegedly “unjustifiably” closing more than 300 of the company’s bank accounts after the steps of January 6, 2021 in the United States Capitol for a multitude of followers of President Donald Trump.
The lawsuit said that the Trump organization and related entities “have reasons to believe that the unilateral decision of Capital One arose as a result of political and social motivations and” awakened “non -fundamental capital beliefs, which needed to distance himself from President Trump and his conservative political opinions.”
“In essence, the accounts of the plaintiffs” of Banked “of Capital One, the political tide at this time favored to do so,” says the Trump organization in the civil case presented in the eleventh court of judicial circuit in Miami-Dade County.
The lawsuit seeks a declaration judgment that the bank incorrectly terrified the accounts of Trump’s companies in June 2021, as well as monetary damage and other monetary damage for what the demand alleged was “the devastating impact” of the terminations on the capacity of the companies to make transactions and access their funds.
The closures occurred more than four months after the riots in the United States Capitol, which began after Trump for weeks he falsely said that he had won the 2020 presidential elections about former President Joe Biden.
The plaintiffs appointed of the lawsuit are Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, DJT Holdings, DJT Holdings Member Manager, DTTM OPERACIONES AND Eric Trump, the president’s son, who with his brother, Donald Trump Jr., directs the Trump organization.
The complaint says that the plaintiffs and affiliated entities had hundreds of accounts in Capital One for decades before they closed. Eric Trump said the amount of damage suffered by companies is “millions of dollars.”
Alejandro Brito, a lawyer who represents the Trump organization in the demand, told CNBC that the company “is contemplating other demands against financial organizations that participate in similar conduct.”
Brito said that Capital One “were an attack on freedom of expression.”
A bank spokesman wrote in an email to CNBC: “Capital One does not have and does not close customer accounts for political reasons.”
Eric Trump said in a statement: “The decision of Capital One to” weaken “our company, after more than a decade, was a clear attack against freedom of expression and the free company that goes to the principles and freedoms of basic that define our country.”
“In addition, the arbitrary closure of these stories, without justifiable cause, reflects a broader effort to silence and undermine the success of the Trump organization and those who dare to express their political views,” said Eric Trump.
