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Miles Archer

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Sat Oct 15, 2016, 07:54 AM Oct 2016

Trump uses "bummer" teleprompter as justification for all of those contractors he never paid



“These teleprompters haven’t been working for the last 20 minutes,” Trump complained. “And I actually like my speech better without teleprompters.”

The Republican nominee then proceeded to move a teleprompter out of his line of sight. “You know what? I like it better without the teleprompter. Get this thing outta here, will you.”

“So, here’s the story,” Trump said after taking the teleprompters apart. “Here’s the way I work. Here’s the way government works. So, the teleprompter’s a bummer. It doesn’t work. That means the company doing the teleprompter is in the back. That means they didn’t do a good job. So I won’t pay them.”

Trump then pivoted from the teleprompter malfunction into an attack on the media, “And tomorrow I’ll have a story in the newspaper: ‘Donald Trump did not pay a contractor who put up the teleprompters.’ Well why should I? They don’t work. And they’ll make me like I’m a bad guy like I’m a bad person.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-teleprompter_us_5801741de4b0e8c198a85297?section=&
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Trump uses "bummer" teleprompter as justification for all of those contractors he never paid (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2016 OP
Well, because GWC58 Oct 2016 #1
Trump is a deadbeat who cheats workers and contractors Gothmog Oct 2016 #2
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