Trump campaign forced to pay North Carolina city $82k in advance for rally

Smaller venues look more full and televised it’s easy to lie about crowd size. Folks pointed out empty seats at a prior rally so I’m sure that’s why the decision was made.

Harris should book the other one the same night.

Let's see who's the bigger draw.

That's the informal motto of House Trump:

A Trump never pays his debts

I wish, this has been his MO since the eighties. He NEVER pays if he can wiggle out of it.

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).

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

I put the following paragraph from the article in the summary for the original post:

While the campaign paid in advance due to Asheville's policy for short-notice bookings, Trump has a long history of failing to paycities 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.

It seems some Lemmy clients don’t show the summary of cross posts.

Seriously no one should ever incur any expense based on trumps promise though. Everyone should make him pay up front. Especially his lawyers

Glad this is the top comment. I really dislike headlines like this. Why be manipulative when DJT is a seemingly bottomless well of actual things to be angry about?

Still more qualified than him.

Yes; that’s based on me only knowing you have one trait in common with him.

It’s probably because it’s a city that has a large enough venue to host nearby rural folks who are his target demographic. If I had to guess, it will have low local attendance and the audience will largely be made up of people whining about Asheville and its residents.

Ah the liberal Asheville is smart enough to make him pay beforehand, but still not smart enough not to do business with a con man who wants to overthrow them