Trump campaign forced to pay North Carolina city $82k in advance for rally
Trump campaign forced to pay North Carolina city $82k in advance for rally
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.
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The Trump campaign booked the smaller of two venues at the same complex in downtown Asheville for Wednesday's rally. The Thomas Wolfe Auditorium has a capacity of just 2,431 people, while a larger arena next door that is not hosting Trump has a capacity of 7,200.
Who’s not able to fill an arena now?
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.
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.
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.
They should go and heckle him instead, have one just record it all
It's similar to when a guy shaves his pubes, hoping to make his dick appear bigger.
Harris should book the other one the same night.
Let's see who's the bigger draw.
Campaign counterprogramming, I like it!