Why am I not surprised with this?
The city of Albuquerque has referred a $211,175.94 bill for former President Trump’s reelection campaign rally in 2019 to a professional debt collection agency.
The outstanding invoice has remained unpaid since the event in nearby Rio Rancho. City officials covered the security costs of the then-president’s stay at a downtown Albuquerque hotel, The Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday.
The six-figure tab includes the costs of blocking off City Hall and parts of downtown, as well as overtime pay for police officers….
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Lorena Sanchez, a spokesperson for the city, told the Albuquerque Journal that officials have been attempting to collect payment for months, even mailing the bill to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this month. …
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Albuquerque is not the only city attempting to collect outstanding debts from the Trump campaign. City officials in El Paso, Texas, said in November that they are hiring legal counsel in their fight to obtain more than half a million dollars stemming from a February 2019 rally…
Note…
For 4 years Donald Trump had us taxpayers paying his bills…
Now he won’t pay his bills with his own campaign collected money?
Democratic Socialist Dave says
James, you don’t understand:
Paying off your overdue past debts to the citizens of your rally sites is
FAR LESS IMPORTANT
than accumulating funds to challenge weak-sister, election-stealing RINOs in GOP primaries.
… unless this is the Donald’s way of Defunding the Police (and other First Responders) where his maskless hordes have assembled.
jamesb says
And Pay then IRS, Lawyers, Women suing you, people u owe 1/2 Billion Dollars to?
Yup DSD…..
You Right‼️
My Name Is Jack says
These cities and anyone else who deals with this crypto criminal enterprise deserve to be taken.
I don’t feel an ounce of sorrow for them .
Kick em again Don!
Democratic Socialist Dave says
I think that some of those, cities, Jack, didn’t want Trump to bring his super-spreader rallies, with the agitation and infection they’d bring, into their towns in the first place.
All they’re doing, I presume, is trying to collect on the extra costs they brought.
You didn’t invite that bunch of kids onto your manicured lawn to hit a home-run through that stained-glass window, but you still want their parents to compensate you for the repairs.
jamesb says
Trump IS excellent at trying to ‘make’ money and trying NOT to pay it back….
People forget that upon gaining the Presidency he was almost completely shut out of financial lending places…..
While some think he he’s worth over a Billion Dollars….
His debt is conservatively estimated at 1/2 Billion….
That does Not include possible civil suits by various women and old IRS and NYS tax outstandindings…