Summary
Albuquerque officials say Trump now owes the city $444,986 over five years.
Trump’s campaign has left numerous cities with hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills for public safety costs incurred during his rallies. Some cities have hired law firms to collect the debts, while others have required campaigns to pay estimated costs in advance. Despite Trump’s support for law enforcement, his campaign has consistently failed to reimburse local governments for the expenses they incur.
Hate to say it, but this is pretty common.Trump just does it more.
E: This isn’t a “both sides” argument. It’s just how campaigns seem to work, and as I said, trump is worse.
Is it common? This article is clear but is one case. The fact, as the article shares, that the Biden campaign quickly paid the bill further brings to question the “common” stance - in that they paid when they became aware. Maybe the mayoral staff over the last 8 years just aren’t that good at getting their bills paid.
https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/does-the-trump-campaign-still-owe-el-paso-and-other-cities-money
Like I said, it’s pretty common. I distinctly remember HRC stepping out on several large bills, though I think they were eventually paid. It seems most campaigns end up leaving some bills unpaid, sometimes for quite a long time. Trump, as I mentioned, seems worse than most.
“Readers should be aware that while there is still a lot of relevant information to be found, not all fact briefs produced by Gigafact Foundry reflect Gigafact’s current methods and standards for fact briefs.”
I think that one comes under the category of superficially balanced by criticising both parties, and technically correct, but out of date in terms of remaining debt and wildly, grossly misleading in terms of the picture it paints.
And, being a rich person, he’d not see immediate consequencies of it.
Yeah, we’d not allow him to visit us the next time!
says a beta, or even omega town.
We’d take his intestines out as souvenirs and wait for the highest bidder.
is what alpha-chad town sounds like.
Btw, would you want penis of a male, 78, in epoxy? Yeah, it’s way smaller that you’d assume, but nevertheless it’s a unique conversation piece when placed in the living room or on the counter. Shit’s selling like hot cakes.
He doesn’t owe any of them that keep letting him come back without paying his bill. Tabs are for bars, not cities. If they want the money, they need to be willing to make him look like a cheapskate and cancel the event. The local authorities must be supporters of his to let it keep happening. Which means they’ll never make him pay the bill for any of this.
Except no. Maybe in high school sophomore reasoning, but the financial world doesn’t operate the way you’re describing. It’s totally normal for business people to owe each other money, and accruing new bills doesn’t cancel old bills. As with all non-cash transactions, these cities knew they were risking not getting paid in case he goes bankrupt, but he still owes them and they have every right to collect, even if they let him come back.
As a municipal official - that’s not how things work in reality.
Unless you’re willing to start shooting people, there comes a point where we can’t do anything. Residents have to worry about being evicted due to leins from the city, but political parties don’t because there’s nothing to seize within our jurisdictional control. All we can do is sue and get in line behind 50,000 other people who will never get paid.
i mean, you don’t become a billionaire by spending your own money. that’s little people stuff
Are you really telling me that multi-billionaire Donald Trump, openly backed by the richest man in the world, doesn’t pay his bills?!
Oh wait, he does it all the fucking time. Maybe it’s time to use a credit check agency, guys. You know, like you do every time a poor person wants something.
