Tue Jan 18, 2022 – 1:58 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, whose vocal support for former president Donald Trump has frequently put him in the crosshairs of the mainstream media and left-wing politicos, said Monday that two banks want to cancel his accounts, citing “reputation risk” after the January 6 committee issued a subpoena for Lindell’s phone records.
The news came shortly after popular Irish conservative commentator Dave Cullen, who has frequently created videos criticizing the COVID-19 response, among other political and cultural issues, reported that PayPal had terminated his account for alleged violations of their “acceptable use policy.”
The incidents raise concern about the potential for banks, corporations, and government actors in western nations to shut down access to personal financial resources for political reasons, a practice already carried out by totalitarian regimes like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“There’s something behind this, and we can’t let everyone get de-banked in our country,” Lindell said in an interview with Business Insider, arguing that the moves by the banks were an example of “cancel culture” motivated by politics.
According to Lindell, Minnesota Bank & Trust and Heartland Financial USA both reached out to him to inform him they wanted to cut off their
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