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One of pro golf's most important tournaments was pulled from President Donald Trump's course in Bedminster, New Jersey, days after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, officials said Sunday.

While the Professional Golfers' Association of America didn't mention the riot in its statement, the move came four days after the mobs, egged on by Trump's continual false statements about election fraud, breached the Capitol in a failed effort to overturn the win of President-elect Joe Biden.

At least five people died, including a Capitol Police officer.

The 2022 PGA Championship had been set to be played at Trump's club in May of that year.

"The PGA of America Board of Directors voted tonight to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster," PGA of America President Jim Richerson said in a statement released by the PGA.

In a video statement, Richerson said that playing at Trump's club would be bad for business and that it could even hurt the sport itself.

"It's become clear that conducting the PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster would be detrimental to the PGA of America brand and would put at risk the PGA's ability to deliver on many programs and sustain the longevity of our mission," he said.

"It was a decision made to ensure that PGA of America and PGA professionals can continue to lead and grow our great game for decades to come," he said.

The Trump Organization claimed in a statement that the PGA has "no right to terminate the agreement."

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank will not do business in the future with U.S. President Donald Trump or his companies in the wake of his supporters' assault on the U.S. Capitol, the New York Times reported.

Deutsche Bank is Trump's biggest lender, with about $340 million in loans outstanding to the Trump Organization, the president's umbrella group that is currently overseen by his two sons, according to Trump's disclosures with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics dated July 31 last year, plus banking sources.

The move, reported by the NYT and citing a person familiar with the bank's thinking, comes as Signature Bank - where Trump's ethics disclosures show he has checking and money-market accounts - called for him to step down.

"The resignation of the president ... is in the best interests of our nation and the American people," Signature Bank said on its website.

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Marriott and Blue Cross Blue Shield are just a few of the companies that are halting donations to GOP lawmakers who objected to certifying Joe Biden as president, while other businesses move to cut ties with President Trump directly.

The actions come on the heels of Friday’s permanent suspension of Donald Trump’s Twitter account and Amazon’s move to cut off social media platform Parler’s servers in response to the violent riots that the president himself incited last week in Washington, D.C.