City of Albuquerque sends Trump campaign $211,000 bill for rally, asks him 'pay our taxpayers back'

[KelleyKramer]

City of Albuquerque sends Trump campaign $211,000 bill for rally, asks him to 'pay our taxpayers back'


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/467342-city-of-albuquerque-sends-trump-campaign-211000-bill-for-rally-asks-him-to


The city of Albuquerque, N.M., is asking President Trump’s campaign to pay its bill for costs incurred from his visit last month. In a press release provided to The Hill on Thursday, the city said it sent Trump’s campaign organization, Donald Trump for President, Inc., an invoice totaling $211,175.94. The costs stem from police services provided to the campaign to help with Trump’s visit, as well as covering the paid time off it had to provide to city employees who were forced to vacate facilities near Trump during his stay over the course of two workdays.


Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said in a statement that the town’s “resources for law enforcement are critical and limited.” “The President’s campaign stop in the Albuquerque area cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, including over 1500 hours of police overtime that was required by the campaign,” he continued. “We are asking the Trump campaign to pay our taxpayers back for the costs from his campaign stop.” The city said it incurred $7,102 for barricades during Trump’s visit and $132,831 in paid time off for city employees. It also said assistance from the Albuquerque Police Department provided during Trump’s campaign visit amounted to $71,242.

Michael Glassner, the chief operating officer of Trump’s campaign organization, responded to the city’s invoice in a statement to The Hill on Thursday, saying “it is the U.S. Secret Service, not the campaign, which coordinates with local law enforcement.” “The campaign itself does not contract with local governments for police involvement. All billing inquiries should always go to the Secret Service,” he said.

A spokeswoman for the city of Albuquerque responded to Glassner’s comments in a statement to The Hill later on Thursday. “The cost to the taxpayer was created by the President’s campaign. Taxpayers are on the hook for the thousands of hours of police overtime and other costs incurred, and we are asking the Trump campaign to pay them back,” the spokeswoman said in the statement. The city said the $211,175 bill is due on November 16, which is 30 days after the invoice was sent to Trump’s campaign.

“Donald Trump for President, Inc. has outstanding bills from at least 10 other cities for campaign stops, including overtime for police departments,” the city added in the release.


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[sakabatou]

1. Trump will just stuff them

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Good luck on that.

I don't think Trump has ever paid for such things.

Minneapolis recently tried to bill him ahead of time, but I don't think they succeeded.

Unfortunately, the amounts involved are too large to go to small claims court.

[KT2000]

3. would it be possible for the cities

to form a class action against rump? They could even have those late night commercials rounding up more cities as the campaign goes on.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Maybe.

That's an interesting idea. I'm not an attorney, so I have no idea how feasible this is, but I do like it.

[gab13by13]

5. Trump is a 2 bit con man

who got in over his head with the mob. He also must have some kind of mental illness.

[True Blue American]

6. No

Trump is just a crook! as one pundit said every day he creates something to get him through the next 24 hours but his time is running out!

[Scarsdale]

7. tRump has these fund raisers

with wealthy donors. According to them, they take in millions. Why don't they pay the bills, unless even those totals are lies like everything else tRump? What a deadbeat this person is. He claims the police, military and bikers are all ready to fight for him. How can people support this scammer?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Donny the deadbeat

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Someone needs to do a story on this - the number of unpaid bills he's left behind

This is hardly the only city he's stiffed, it would make a good Bill Maher "New Rules."

[safeinOhio]

10. One bad player might ruin it for everyone.

I can see Albuquerque passing a law that delegates an out of the way spot for all political rallies that require police protection that are not paid in full ahead of time. Of course they might name them Freedom Areas.

[Sherman A1]

13. Or cities may force campaigns to put down deposits

In the future, which seems entirely reasonable. These events are planned in advance, I’m sure that crowd sizes and resources necessary can be reasonably estimated. The city simply needs to establish a basic formula for a required deposit for those services or an entity pay up front method.

[yuiyoshida]

11. They will never see that money again

Trump will stiff them....

[Mc Mike]

12. Nazi deadbeat.