‘Reagan’ movie producer claims company was ‘debanked’ during filming of Republican icon’s biopic

There's something almost too fitting about a company making a movie about the man who told us government is the problem getting shut out of the banking system while the cameras were rolling. You can't script that kind of irony, though apparently someone at Bank of America thought it was fine to hand out in real life.

Debanking has stopped being a fringe complaint. It's happened to gun sellers, pastors, crypto founders, and now, sure, a film crew honoring Reagan. The pattern isn't about any one industry. It's about banks deciding they get to be the moral gatekeepers of who's allowed to move money, with zero explanation required and zero accountability when they get it wrong.

Maybe there's a boring compliance reason behind this specific case. Banks love to hide behind that excuse. But boring reasons don't require silence, and silence is what people get every time this happens. If Bank of America has a real answer, it should give one publicly instead of letting a production company guess.

We've spent years being told debanking is a conspiracy theory for people who watch too much cable news. Then it keeps happening to people making a movie about Ronald Reagan. At some point the coincidence stops being a coincidence.