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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 11:51 AM Apr 2020

City leaders to Trump: help us fight the coronavirus by paying your bills - Center for Public Integr

Here’s how some city leaders say President Donald Trump could immediately help them grapple with the coronavirus crisis: Pay bills they already sent his campaign committee months or years ago.

Fourteen municipal governments — from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Wildwood, New Jersey — want Trump’s campaign committee to clear a combined $1.82 million worth of public safety-related debt connected to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign rallies, according to interviews with local officials and municipal records obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

The Trump campaign’s tab is now more than double what Public Integrity first reported in June.

Cities are girding for a coronavirus-induced financial disaster, with a new study from the National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors indicating more than 2,100 U.S. cities are anticipating significant budget shortfalls and widespread cuts to local government programs and staff. These cuts are likely to fall hardest on low-income residents, people of color, the homeless and the disabled, who are suffering disproportionately from the pandemic.

Campaigns should always reimburse already cash-strapped cities for police and public safety costs, argued Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, whose city wants the Trump campaign to pay nearly $543,000 stemming from an Oct. 10 rally.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/city-leaders-to-trump-help-us-fight-the-coronavirus-by-paying-your-bills


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City leaders to Trump: help us fight the coronavirus by paying your bills - Center for Public Integr (Original Post) douglas9 Apr 2020 OP
Dead beat Don WVreaper Apr 2020 #1
It is just good business Chainfire Apr 2020 #2
No sympathy. procon Apr 2020 #3
Somehow the campaign can afford to launder tens of millions through Brad Parscale Tanuki Apr 2020 #4
Can the cities charge an entry fee to the attendees? keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #5
To those city leaders: AZ8theist Apr 2020 #6

Chainfire

(17,308 posts)
2. It is just good business
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 11:57 AM
Apr 2020

They want their money? They should be happy I honored their city with an appearance. The check is in the mail.....

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. No sympathy.
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 12:13 PM
Apr 2020

Those cities wanted a Trump rally to curry his favor and appease his cult members. It's quite likely the city officials are likewise Trump fanatics and wanted his approval, while weary of his disapproval, in their own elections.

They knew Trump's long history of skipping out on his tab. Had his campaign organization been any other business the city would have sued to recoup their loses. They won't sue Trump of course because they are weak and afraid (with good reason perhaps) Trump will retaliate against them personally, or their cities at large.


This is the bed they made when they made their Faustian bargain with the devil.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
5. Can the cities charge an entry fee to the attendees?
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 01:16 PM
Apr 2020

Can the cities charge an entry fee to the attendees?

As a condition for the permit.

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