The JPMorgan Chase-owned payment processor WePay refused to do business with the PAC, alleging it violated WePay's policy, forcing the Trump Jr. event to be called off.
The Donald Trump Jr. event was canceled after JPMorgan Chase-owned WePay alleged the event's organizer violated WePay's policy against"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." Trump is pictured during a rally in Dalton, Georgia, on January 4, 2021.
"It seems you're using WePay Payments for one or more of the activities prohibited by our terms of service," the message reportedly 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.".
"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 told the news outlet."If someone has a different idea politically, there is an attempt to silence them or shut them down." "I can't think of a single instance where anything we have done at any one of these events violates one of their terms of service," he added."They are trying to shut us down because they don't like our politics."