Trump has a long history of failing to pay cities for rally fees that are not paid in advance.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18634498

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, Texas.

  • Todd Bonzalez
    40•4 months ago

    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.

    Wait, what? Why would the White House inherit Trump’s rally debt? Doesn’t that belong to his campaign?

    Isn’t it a federal crime to use taxpayer money to fund your reelection campaign?

    • @ccunningOP
      45•4 months ago

      He left the White House. At the time he left the White House he had $850k in debt.

      The sentence is vague but this is how I read it (mostly because, you’re right, the other way doesn’t make sense).

    • @OhmsLawn
      15•4 months ago

      I believe that could have been worded better. Pretty sure it means that T owed 850,000 when he left the White House.