Attorneys Challenge Bank Of America’s Claims It Doesn’t Discriminate Against Conservatives

Federalist

After President Trump called out Bank of America’s CEO Thursday for debanking conservatives, the company strenuously denies that it has ever refused service based on Americans’ political or religious beliefs. But free speech lawyers say the company can’t just deny its record of doing exactly that.

On Thursday morning, a newly inaugurated Trump spoke to the World Economic Forum via livestream, taking questions from CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies. During his response to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan’s question about the effect of executive orders on the economy, Trump told Moynihan to stop debanking people who disagree with Democrats.

“I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank and that included a place called Bank of America,” Trump said, after talking about his efforts to cut inflation. “They don’t take conservative business. And I don’t know if the regulators mandated that because of Biden or what, but … I hope you’re going to open your banks to conservatives, because what you’re doing is wrong.” read more