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Trump campaign forced to pay North Carolina city $82k in advance for rally (www.newsweek.com)

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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.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Now we can make fun of him for picking an arena 1/3 the size and point out even he knows his numbers are bunk. Bonus points of we still get empty seats.

[-] Vanderdeckenscopilot@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Alot of the locals signed up for the free tickets with no intention of actually going.

Plus it's a Thursday afternoon. Most of his cult members are at one of their jobs.

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