Trump has a long history of failing to pay cities for rally fees that are not paid in advance.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18634498

While the campaign paid in advance due to Asheville’s policy for short-notice bookings, Trump has a long history of failing to pay cities for billed rally fees, leaving the White House in January 2021 with at least $850,000 in unpaid rally debt. Most of the bills are still unpaid, including more than $500,000 owed to The city of El Paso, Texas.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    264·
    3 months ago

    the campaign paid in advance due to Asheville’s policy for short-notice bookings

    So it’s a non-story, nothing to do with Trump.

    • ccunning@lemmy.worldOP
      201·
      3 months ago

      I put the following paragraph from the article in the summary for the original post:

      While the campaign paid in advance due to Asheville’s policy for short-notice bookings, Trump has a long history of failing to paycities for billed rally fees, leaving the White House in January 2021 with at least $850,000 in unpaid rally debt. Most of the bills are still unpaid, including more than $500,000 owed to the city of El Paso, Texas.

      It seems some Lemmy clients don’t show the summary of cross posts.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      Seriously no one should ever incur any expense based on trumps promise though. Everyone should make him pay up front. Especially his lawyers

    • modifier@lemmy.ca
      413·
      3 months ago

      Glad this is the top comment. I really dislike headlines like this. Why be manipulative when DJT is a seemingly bottomless well of actual things to be angry about?

      • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
        32·
        3 months ago

        Trump has a long history of failing to pay cities for billed rally fees, leaving the White House in January 2021 with at least $850,000 in unpaid rally debt.

        In other words Trump isn’t to be trusted

        // Also not a top comment either, so prolly extends to his idiot fan base too

        • modifier@lemmy.ca
          31·
          3 months ago

          No shit he isn’t to be trusted, but that’s not why Asheville made his campaign pay in advance. So why do a story on that when there are a million actual things he and his campaign are doing or planning to do to prevent a free and fair election? Why write a story that makes it seem like we need to reach?

          It’s irresponsible journalism and the comment I replied to (which was the top comment 7 hours ago, if I may steal a moment to acquaint you with the concept of the passage of time) rightfully drew attention to that fact.

          MAGA is planning to steal this election if they can’t win it. We need more column-inches on that and less of this petty non-story shit, even if it makes us feel good.

          And that makes me a Trump Supporter. Check your media literacy.