A December rally that would’ve featured Donald Trump, Jr. as headliner was abruptly canceled when the bank handling credit card payments notified them that it would no longer do business with the PAC organizing it, the Missouri Independent reports.
The Defense of Liberty PAC, founded by former state Rep. Paul Curtman, hired payment processor WePay, owned by JPMorgan Chase, to handle credit card payments for the December 3rd events. On November 9th, WePay notified the PAC they were canceling the contract.
“It seems you’re using WePay Payments for one or more of the activities prohibited by our terms of service,” a copy of the message, forwarded to The Independent, states. “More specifically: Per our terms of service, we are unable to process for hate, violence, racial intolerance, terrorism, the financial exploitation of a crime, or items or activities that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others regarding the same.”
WePay informed the group that it had refunded $30,000 it had collected in payments for the event, which was expected to draw 3,000 supporters.
“My personal sense of why they did this is kind of along the same lines we have been seeing in our culture in recent years,” Curtman said. “If someone has a different idea politically, there is an attempt to silence them or shut them down.”
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