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The country’s largest bank has severed ties with a conservative group in Missouri, forcing an event originally set to feature Donald Trump Jr. was cancelled immediately.
The event in St. Charles, Missouri on December 3 was attended by the son of former President Donald Trump and was organized by the conservative Freedom Defense Political Action Committee. According to reports, WePay, a payment processor owned by JP Morgan Chase, was used to process ticket transactions for events until the arrangement broke down.
Defending Freedom founder Paul Kirtman, former Republican state representative, Tell The Missouri Independent stated that WePay notified him in a message that it would no longer conduct business with his team due to alleged violations of the terms of service and had refunded the $30,000 that had been processed for the event.
According to the report, the message stated: “It appears that you are using WePay Payments for one or more activities prohibited by our terms of service.” “More specifically: According to our terms of service, we cannot deal with hatred, violence, racial intolerance , Terrorism, criminal economic exploitation, or encourage, promote, promote, or guide others’ related projects or activities.”
The quoted terms of service appear on the WePay website under the heading “Unlawful. “Other violations listed under this category include “deceptive, unfair or predatory behavior” and “forced child labor/human trafficking, slavery.” The specific details of why Defence of Liberty PAC was found to be engaged in “illegal” activities are unclear.
“My personal view of the reasons they did this is the same as we have seen in our culture in recent years,” Kirtman told the news media. “If someone has a different idea in politics, they will try to silence them or shut them down.”
He added: “I can’t think of a situation where anything we did in any of these incidents violated one of their terms of service.” “They tried to shut us down because they didn’t like our politics. “
According to reports, former Republican state senator Jim Lembke, who worked with the organization, said that Trump Jr. appearance is expected to attract 3,000 spectators. Tickets cost between US$70 and US$250, and guests can participate in special events with Trump Jr. before the main event and pay an additional US$500.
Lembke announced in a local radio interview on Tuesday that the event had been cancelled. A day later, he told the Missouri Independent that the move “directed to a company that was waking up trying to abolish freedom of speech, especially Donald Trump Jr.’s speech.”
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