Trump Campaign Forced To Pay North Carolina City $82K in Advance for Rally

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Source: newsweek



Updated Aug 14, 2024 at 9:58 AM EDT


By Aila Slisco


Former President Donald Trump's campaign was forced to pay more than $82,000 in advance for this week's rally in Asheville, North Carolina.

Trump is set to take the stage at Asheville's Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Wednesday after paying $82,247.60 to the city for a "last-minute" rally, according to Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR). The campaign, struggling to effectively blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris, reportedly first contacted the city about the rally on August 8.

City of Asheville spokesperson Kim Miller told BPR that $22,500 of the amount paid is a two-day rental fee for the auditorium, while "the remainder of the funds go to cover additional costs such as house support, production staff, production equipment rental, and exterior items like queue stanchions and port-a-loos."

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, ...............................

But President Joe Biden lost to Trump in North Carolina by less than 100,000 votes in 2020 and a poll released this week shows that Harris is now tied with the former president in The Tar Heel State.

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Past time for these cities to start collecting on very very ..old bills from Trump!!

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Get the money in advance for any services rendered while they still have a little reserves.

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[CincyDem]

1. "I'm sorry...Sir...your credit is no good here". Lolol.

[Roy Rolling]

22. Did the check clear?

He didn’t pay until I see evidence. He’s a deadbeat leading an army of those who think the deadbeat is just playing a role to fool Democrats.

Hillary was right…”deplorables”.

[spooky3]

2. Good. All other communities should follow suit. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. An extracted image...

[mysteryowl]

4. This is good!

I think there needs to be a class-action law suit for all the cities he stiffed during his last campaign.

Hundreds of thousands!!!

[tanyev]

5. Let's see...how many seconds in front of the microphone before he whines about that?

20? 10?

[sarge43]

18. Couldn't be counted in pico seconds.

It's obviously a Harris/Walz plot.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Is it me or am I detecting that tRUMP is looking smaller and shorter than before, that his old age is shrinking

him (getting more hunched over, etc.).

[IronLionZion]

7. Major shrinkage going on

[Pinback]

26. He was in the pool!! (nt)

[Deuxcents]

9. It's not you. He's not looking good. At all.

[spooky3]

14. And, I suspect he's taking those weight loss shots. Not

that there's anything wrong with that, but it could account for some change in his size.

[Bengus81]

8. Donald J Whimpy: I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a rally site today......

Carnival barker working those cities over.

[gab13by13]

10. Yeah but TSF will save money

paying people to show up because the venue only holds 2,400 people. Musk can pay everyone 100 bucks to attend.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Or a very, very slow police escort.

[PedroXimenez]

12. they have his picture pinned on their wall

"This guy has to pay in advance"

[FakeNoose]

13. He'll never be invited back to Minneapolis or El Paso again

[moniss]

15. That 60 cents is like icing on a cake to the face. nt

[twodogsbarking]

16. Get cash. Count it.

[quakerboy]

17. Cash?

Or at least enough in advance for the check to clear, I hope

[Pluvious]

19. Related tweet and video...

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I produced commercials for Trump Casinos in 1986. He refused to pay for the spots and stiffed ALL the ad agencies he hired. In 2019 I went to my first rally. The mayor demanded he pay $500k up front. Trump refused, brought cops for trump on staged and mocked the mayor.

He NEVER paid.

Included video...

[surfered]

20. He's a deadbeat.

[Ford_Prefect]

21. What do you bet he tried to pay in Crypto?

[Oopsie Daisy]

23. Very wise of them to do so. Trump has a reputation and history of not paying.

[flying-skeleton]

24. Who wants to bet......

After all is said & done....
He'll still stiff em suckers.
😂😂😂

[electric_blue68]

25. HAHAHAHAHAAAAA. Yes, GET the Grifter!!!

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

27. I found this part of the article interesting

The Trump campaign booked the smaller of two venues at the same complex in downtown Asheville for Wednesday's rally. The Thomas Wolfe Auditorium has a capacity of just 2,431 people, while a larger arena next door that is not hosting Trump has a capacity of 7,200.

So either the campaign is broke and can’t afford it, or he is scared the 7,000 wouldn’t get filled.

[captain queeg]

28. It's about time that communities get their money up front.

It’s not like he hasn’t collected plenty of money. He’s been grifting millions from all the rubes. Don’t know when they will wise up, probably never. But these communities have budgets and they cant be donating to TSF by providing free venues and security.