The Trump organization sued Capital one In Florida on Friday for supposedly “unjustified” closure of greater than 300 bank accounts of the corporate 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” delisters the “plaintiffs” of capital since the political flood was for the time being of the opinion to achieve this ” Elter Justice Circle Court in Miami-Dade County.
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 the company to realize their means, 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.
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 “hundreds of thousands 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’re 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 doesn’t close customer accounts for political reasons.”
Eric Trump said in an explanation: “The decision of Capital One, our company after rather more than a decade about” Debank “, was a transparent attack on freedom of speech and free company that flies to the principles and freedoms that outline our country.”
“In addition, the arbitrary closure of those reports without justified cause reflects a broader effort, the success of the Trump organization and those that dare to specific their political opinions, silence and undermine,” said Eric Trump.
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