Payment processing company Stripe has cut ties with President Trump
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Stripe, a San Francisco-based company that manages online card payments for several companies, will stop processing payments for the campaign, saying the campaign violated its policies against encouraging violence after a pro-Trump crowd invaded and vandalized the Capitol.
The company requests that users not collect payments for “high risk” activities, including any business or organization that “engages, encourages, promotes or celebrates illegal violence or physical harm to people or property,” according to to your website.
Wall Street Newspaper reported for the first time that the company was ending its relationship with the campaign.
Trump’s campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
News of Stripe’s separation from the president’s campaign came after other tech companies punished Trump and his campaign.
Twitter permanently suspended Trump’s account and Facebook declared that the president could not have access until at least the president-elect Joe Biden
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Apple and Google also stopped offering Parler, the right-wing social media site frequented by conservatives and Trump supporters, in their app stores, saying the platform does not monitor its content and Amazon Web Services said it would not host the website until it increased moderation of content.
Companies are responding after pro-Trump protesters broke into the Capitol building last week, forcing lawmakers to flee to safe locations and both chambers to interrupt their debates over the Electoral College.
Trump called on his supporters to meet in DC on January 6 to protest Congress’s certification of Electoral College results confirming Biden’s victory. Before the disturbances, he encouraged his supporters in a speech to march to the Capitol and reiterated his baseless claims that widespread electoral fraud affected the election.
Marriott International Inc. and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced that they would suspend business donations to any legislator who voted against the Electoral College vote after the unrest.