Stripe restricts payments from “high risk” companies, including those that “engage, encourage, promote or celebrate illegal violence or physical harm to people or property,” according to its website’s statement about restricted businesses.
Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump campaign paid Stripe more than $ 1.8 million in the 2020 electoral cycle, the Federal Electoral Commission records show.
Last month, the Trump campaign and the political operation reported raising more than $ 207 million between election day and early December, while he flooded his supporters with emails and texts asking for donations to help challenge the results. electoral An increasing share of the money, however, flowed into a leadership political action committee that Trump established to help finance his post-White House activities.
The updated figures on Trump’s most recent fundraiser are not yet public.
– CNN’s Fredreka Schouten contributed to this report