US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on South Lawn before entering Washington, DC, USA on February 28, 2025.
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The Trump organization sued Capital one In Florida on Friday for supposedly “unjustified” closure of more than 300 bank accounts of the company after January 6, 2021 by a mob of President Donald Trump on the US Capitol on the US Capitol.
The lawsuit states that the Trump organization and the related units “have reason to assume that the one -sided decision of capital one through political and social motivations and the unfounded capital -One -from” the beliefs “aroused that it had to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views.”
“Essentially” the plaintiffs' deled “because the political flood favored at the moment of accepting the Capital Ones,” claims the Trump organization in the civil proceedings, submitted to the first court court in the Miami-Dade district.
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The lawsuit requests a declaratory judgment that the bank's accounts of the Trump companies in June 2021 as well as criminal and other money damage for what the lawsuit claimed “the devastating effects” on the ability of companies to realize their means to realize their means, and not properly, and the ability of the company.
The closings came more than four months after the U.S. Capitol's uprising, who had been mistaken for weeks that he mistakenly claimed that he had won the 2020 presidential election over the former President Joe Biden.
The plaintiffs mentioned are the revocable trust of Donald J. Trump, DJT Holdings, DJT Holdings member, DTTM Operations, and Eric Trump, the son of the President, who heads the Trump organization with his brother Donald Trump.
The son of the former US President Donald Trump, Eric Trump, takes part in the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024 on the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convent.
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In the complaint, the plaintiffs and connected institutions kept hundreds of accounts in Capital One for decades before they were closed. Eric Trump said the amount of the damage suffered by the company is “millions of dollars”.
Alejandro Brito, a lawyer who represents the Trump organization in the lawsuit, told CNBC that the company “consider other lawsuits against financial organizations who are committed to similar behavior.”
Brito said the actions of Capital One was “an attack on freedom of speech”.
A spokesman for the bank wrote in an e -mail to CNBC: “Capital One has and does not close customer accounts for political reasons.”
The logo for the consumer credit company Capital One Financial Corp can be seen in its headquarters on January 20, 2023 in McLean, Virginia.
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Eric Trump said in an explanation: “The decision of Capital One, our company after much more than a decade about” Debank “, was a clear attack on freedom of speak and free company that flies to the principles and freedoms that define our country.”
“In addition, the arbitrary closure of these reports without justified cause reflects a broader effort, the success of the Trump organization and those who dare to express their political views, silence and undermine,” said Eric Trump.
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