Nine Major Banks ‘Denied, Debanked, and Discriminated Against’ Conservatives, Trump Admin Probe Finds
A new federal report finds “irrefutable evidence that the nation’s largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against” conservatives, religious organizations and lawful businesses because of their political beliefs or activities.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released the results of its investigation into the nine largest banks it supervises in a on Wednesday. Those banks include JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo Bank, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC Bank, TD Bank and BMO Bank.
The revelations in the report include allegations that JPMorgan Chase’s former payment processor WePay closed accounts belonging to merchants selling Trump and Make America Great Again merchandise after the bank’s screening system apparently flagged phrases including “MAGA,” “Make America Great,” and “America First.”
The report also accuses WePay of closing accounts associated with conservative religious organizations, including one that was labeled an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
PNC, meanwhile, allegedly denied a line of credit to a media company after employees argued the company’s conservative owners had expressed opinions “very contrary to PNC’s beliefs/values.”
Wells Fargo pushed a payment processor to debank a religious nonprofit over its opposition to same-sex marriage, and also declined loans to firearms businesses amid concerns about potential Biden administration pressure, the report found.
President Trump directed the agency to carry out the investigation in an August 2025 executive order guaranteeing fair banking access. As part of the probe, the agency reviewed nearly 100,000 complaints and approximately 420,000 pages of bank documents from the time between 2020 and September 2025.
Trump’s executive order directed the agency “to determine whether these banks’ policies or practices may have required, encouraged, or otherwise influenced banks to deny or limit access to financial services to Americans because of their political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities.”
“The OCC’s findings show that, between 2020 and September 2025, all nine banks had such policies,” the report says.
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