The list is growing day by day.
Five days after the assault on Capitol Hill by supporters of Donald Trump, many American multinationals have announced that they are distancing themselves from the Republican Party, in particular by stopping donations to certain elected officials of Donald Trump's party.
In the United States, American companies can in fact set up a political action committee that manages donations made by its employees and transfers them to candidates or political parties.
The payment giant American Express, the company specializing in chemicals Dow and the operator AT&T announced Monday to end donations to politicians who opposed, on January 6, the certification of the results of the US presidential election. .
That day, a crowd of supporters of Donald Trump had invaded Congress in Washington for several hours, interrupting this procedure aimed at validating the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and supposed to be a mere formality.
"The attempts made last week by some members of Congress to sabotage the results of the presidential election and disrupt the peaceful transition of power are not in line with our values," said Stephen J. Squeri, president and CEO of American Express, which announced that the company's political action committee would not support these elected officials.
Regarding the Dow company, one of its spokespersons said Monday that the company "was immediately suspending all contributions by its political action committee to members of Congress who voted against certification of the presidential election."
These two multinationals join the Morgan Stanley bank, the hotel giant Marriott International, and the health insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, who have also indicated that they will cease all donations to elected Republican officials who opposed certification of results.
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"We have taken into account the destructive events aimed at undermining a legitimate and fair election that took place on Capitol Hill and we will suspend political donations from our Political Action Committee to those who voted against the certification of the election," a spokesperson for the hotel giant Marriott International told AFP on Sunday.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association had already announced Friday its intention to suspend all contributions "to elected officials who voted to undermine democracy".
End of political donations at Ford, JPMorgan Chase and British Petroleum
The automaker Ford has meanwhile claimed that its political action committee had temporarily stopped all its political donations, as have oil giant British Petroleum, bank JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft Corp, Google, its parent company Alphabet and even Facebook. .
"The attention of business leaders, politicians and civil society leaders must now turn to government management and the provision of aid to those who are in desperate need now," the person commented. responsible for corporate responsibility at JPMorgan Chase, Peter Scher.
"We will have plenty of time to campaign again later," he added.
The Commerce Bank, for its part, said it had suspended all support for officials "who hindered the peaceful transfer of power".
Donald Trump more isolated than ever
US online payment specialist Stripe will stop handling transactions on Donald Trump's campaign site, a source close to the company confirmed on Monday.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which released the information on Sunday, Stripe believes the site has broken its rules against incitement to violence.
Among the conditions imposed on its customers, the company asks its users not to accept payments from organizations "which engage, encourage, promote or celebrate illegal violence or physical harm to people or goods".
In the wake of the Capitol invasion, many figures from the business world quickly denounced this violence.
Some such as the powerful AFL-CIO union, billionaire investor Nelson Peltz or the Ben & Jerry's company have even called for Donald Trump's immediate departure.
Donald Trump has also been banned from social media.
After the Capitol invasion, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Twitch suspended Donald Trump's personal account from their platforms.
The social network Parler, popular with American conservatives, has been banned from Apple Store and Google Play Store applications that allow users to download mobile applications, while online sales giant Amazon Amazon has kicked it out of the AWS Cloud (Amazon Web Services) which hosts its data.
With AFP and Reuters
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