Trump May Be Sorry He Stiffed All Those Rally Venues

The Daily Beast reports:

As Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail—and the size of his MAGA rallies—has ebbed and flowed, one standard operating procedure for the former president has remained constant: Whenever possible, stiff the contractors.

For all the “back the blue” merchandise one can buy at a Trump rally, finding an event where the cops actually working it had their overtime covered by the campaign is surprisingly difficult. But there’s a cost for Trump, too; the hefty bill that he tends to leave with local governments means the ex-president may have to search for even smaller, more obscure rally venues for his 2024 campaign.

Of the 30 counties and municipalities The Daily Beast contacted to ask whether they’d been reimbursed for local cops and firemen supporting a Trump rally, just one—the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—responded to confirm they got any money back. But an official at the city clerk’s office wasn’t even sure it was Trump’s money.

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Months or even years later, the Trump campaign still hasn’t paid some local departments for the overtime pay they earned after working his rallies.https://t.co/grosz1t2hE

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 1, 2023