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RKP5637

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Sat Apr 24, 2021, 04:00 PM Apr 2021

New Mexico city sends Trump campaign's $200,000 bill to collection agency

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/23/2027318/-City-of-Albuquerque-sends-Trump-campaign-s-200-000-security-bill-to-collection-agency?detail=emaildkre

The past five years brought unprecedented reporting on what seemed to be transparent corruption within the Trump organization and administration. Much of the clearly dubious handling of money came out of Donald Trump’s campaign apparatus. Up until the end, Trump’s campaign was run like a traveling con job, and any and all fundraising done in service of his candidacy was used to pay off everything but campaign costs. The Trump administration, like the Trump organization of the past 40+ years, tried to leave citizens holding the bag at every turn. One of the main gripes that states and localities had with Trump’s never-ending campaign was his propensity to leave the costs of enormous security bills on the shoulders of local taxpayers.

One city that has waited more than 19 months for the Trump campaign to pay its debt is Albuquerque, New Mexico. KOB4 reports that Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller sent a $200,000 bill to a collection agency in the hopes of receiving money he says the Trump campaign owes the city. "We actually treated it like any other debt, and so it goes through a somewhat process where you send a bunch of letters out. We got no response from those letters. And then automatically, it does go to an agency that helps try and collect debts, and so that's those annoying phone calls you get that say, you know, you owe money to so-and-so—like now, Trump is getting those."
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New Mexico city sends Trump campaign's $200,000 bill to collection agency (Original Post) RKP5637 Apr 2021 OP
I hope the collection agency is run by the Russian mob. Midnight Writer Apr 2021 #1
That would be great!!! Maybe while they are collecting millions he owes they can tag this on too! RKP5637 Apr 2021 #2
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