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.
shocked pikachu goes here.
Why do these people even allow donnie dumbphuck to come to their town? He’s notorious for this kind of thing.
You can’t really block a legitimate political party without some serious repercussions
Yeah, but if they have a history of not paying, it seems they should be treated like any other outfit that act like deadbeats.
Well that’s why they started demanding payment up front.
I used to do work at a high security site. One day the fire department was there for inspection. Out of curiosity I asked the chief what happens if he needs access and he is declined it for whatever reason. He pointed at the truck and said “This truck along with it’s contents are the key to the city. Nobody can stop me”. That day I learned that nobody can stop the fire department.
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I’m suureeee it will trickle down anytime now!
It’s called pattern recognition and clearly it’s an alien concept to Trump cultists.
MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT!!!
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.
Tons of cities got screwed in 2016 and in 2020, why did they think the guy who is well known for not paying his bills and actually brags about it to his throngs of adoring fans would suddenly pay up? Unless the cities planned to host him knowing that he would never pay, at which point it becomes the taxpayers problem. Should absolutely be grounds for a class action lawsuit.
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.
… again.
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.
The most shocking thing to me at this point is that headline says “some” and not “all”
The most shocking is “over five years”… After the first year you didn’t learn your lesson?
Grifters gonna grift. Scammers gonna scam. Albuquerque is just paying the idiot tax.
Unpaid bills are plausibly part of the reason why his mic tends to fail at his rallies a lot.
He regularly boasts he won’t be paying the contractors after any tiny issue (but is happy to continue using the equipment until the end of the rally).
There is no incentive for any decent contractor to provide services for him, especially when he’s threatening to sue everyone onstage
At this point of time, everyone should be demanding money upfront and a waiver of liability
i mean, you don’t become a billionaire by spending your own money. that’s little people stuff
