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.
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