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EXTORTION! Minneapolis Mayor Tries to Shut Down Trump’s “Keep America Great” Rally


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EXTORTION! Minneapolis Mayor Tries to Shut Down Trump’s “Keep America Great” Rally

The leftist mayor of Minneapolis is trying to extort the Trump campaign by demanding the Target Center pay more than $500,000 in bogus security charges. It’s a tactic used by radicals to shut down conservative speakers on many university campuses.

Mayor Jacob Frey told the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs related to the October 10th “Keep America Great” rally.

 

By comparison, President Obama held an event in the same venue in 2009 and security only cost approximately $20,000.

In other words, the city’s Democrat mayor is charging a Republican president 26 times more than what a Democrat president was charged.

Arena Threatens to Block Rally

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said the Target Center “attempted to pass the costs on to the Trump campaign under threat of withholding the use of the arena.”

“This is an outrageous abuse of power by a liberal mayor trying to deny the rights of his own city’s residents just because he hates the President,” Parscale said. “People want to hear from their President, and no mayor looking to beef up his resume for a run for higher office should stand in the way.”

Jones Day, a law firm representing the Trump campaign, fired off a letter to the Target Center’s management firm accused the mayor of trying to disrupt the rally.

Patriots Should Fight Back

“This last-minute squeeze seems to be nothing but a pretextual political effort with serious First Amendment ramifications,” the letter read.

The Trump campaign told the “Target Center that the U.S. Secret Service is solely responsible for coordinating security and that withholding the use of the arena would be viewed as a breach of contract and result in court action.”

Every freedom-loving patriot in Minneapolis should take the afternoon off and protest outside City Hall — demanding that the mayor-mobster rescind this thuggish edict.

 

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Wrong... Mr. Trump doesn't pay his bills and everyone is starting to catch on... This isn't New York and these aren't real estate wannabe's... Besides, it was the area who said pay up or go away.. Facts is facts.

 

 

 

President Donald Trump is feuding with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over who should pay the bill for the police deployment at a campaign rally in the city this week.

The city told the Target Center, where the Oct. 10 rally is scheduled to be held, that it would have to pay the $530,000 security costs, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. The arena, according to the Star Tribune, then allegedly told the Trump campaign that it would have to cover the bill or would not be allowed to hold the rally there.

In response, Trump fired off a tweet accusing Frey of trying to block his visit and calling him a “lightweight.” And Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, issued a statement accusing the mayor of “abusing the power of his office” while the campaign’s lawyers sent the city a lawyer threatening a lawsuit.

Frey responded with a tweet: “Yawn ... Welcome to Minneapolis where we pay our bill, we govern with integrity, and we love our neighbors.”

The Trump campaign still owes nine cities at least $841,219 in total for police security for previous rallies, according to a report from the Center for Public Integrity.

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Sorry B/A but you're the one who is wrong. Trump doesn't pay for these rallies, the RNC does. 

 

Liberal Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is wanting to extort money from the Trump Campaign to pay for an outlandish security bill to hold a campaign rally in the Twin Cities this week.

This is a common tactic of the left to deny Trump supporters access to venues for their events and gatherings.
Of course, the violent left NEVER have to go through this same type of torment.  Liberal politicians use this tactic exclusively against conservatives.

Mayor Frey is quite bold though for pulling this on the Republican President of the United States.
The Justice Department should sue him for harassment.

 

But it’s even more outrageous than originally reported.

In 2009 Minneapolis charged President Obama $20,000 for security.
This week the Democrat Mayor wants to extort $500,000 from the Trump campaign for security.

 

 

This is criminal!
The DOJ should look into this.

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Trump Threatens to Sue After Being Asked to Pay Security Costs for His Rally

The Trump campaign is indignant that it is being expected to help cover the cost of extra security for a rally planned in Minneapolis Thursday. According to the campaign, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is “attempting to extort President Trump’s re-election campaign by conjuring up a phony and outlandish bill for security.”

Let us pause here to acknowledge two facts. One: the Trump campaign reported it has raised, in the third quarter of this year alone, $125 million. And two: the Trump campaign has a left a trail of bad debts, some several years old at this point, in cities around the country. 

According to a June report from the Center for Public Integrity, the campaign has stuck at least ten cities with security bills that reach almost $1 million dollars combined in the last three years. The costs range from a $16,191 invoice from the tiny 20,000-person Lebanon City, Ohio, to a whopping $570,000 owed to the city of El Paso since February. (That figure includes a 21% late fee assessed when the Trump campaign failed to settle up six months after the fact.)

The report only included cities that went through the trouble of invoicing the campaign for police costs. Many, the report notes, didn’t even bother asking.

There’s some disagreement over who should shoulder the additional security cost of campaign rallies. Some campaigns always cover security costs of their events, but it’s not a universal practice. And, according to the Center for Public Integrity, “in many of these cases, there are no signed contracts between the municipal governments and the Trump campaign. The cities dispatched police officers to secure Trump’s events because they believe public safety required it — and the U.S. Secret Service asked for it.” There are other isolated examples of candidates and cities disagreeing about who should foot the bill, but few campaign have left as many bad debts in their wake as the Trump campaign.

With the Trump campaign poised to descend on his city Thursday — and with Minneapolis Police Department cancelling days off and calling for back-up from around the state — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey came up with a plan to make sure the campaign paid for any costs associated with the event in advance. 

That plan, as recounted by Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale in an righteous email to supporters Monday night: “Frey’s city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs related to the event. The Target Center then attempted to pass the costs on to the Trump campaign under threat of withholding use of the arena.”

Parscale included an email from the Trump campaign’s lawyers threatening to sue AEG, owner of the Target Center.  

Parscale tweeted the email Monday night, accusing the mayor of “abusing his power in an attempt to block the President’s supporters from seeing him speak on Thursday.” Trump himself piled on the next morning, retweeting his campaign manager and calling Frey a “lightweight mayor” who “is hurting the great police and other wonderful supporters.”

A representative for AEG declined to comment on the president’s threat or to confirm whether the event would take place as scheduled, but preparations for the rally appear to be going ahead. On Tuesday afternoon Vice President Mike Pence announced he was planning to join Trump at the Target Center on Thursday.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-threatens-sue-being-asked-210102180.html

 

 

Sorry loser, but this isn't the private sector, you can't just bankrupt because you don't want to pay.

B/A

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He's bragged about raising more money than anybody....payment up front is as simple as a signed check...easy peazy.  While you're at it Donald, or his campaign, or the RNC (party of fiscal responsibility), go ahead and cut El Paso a check.  This shouldn't even be an issue...pay your damn bills.

 

GO RV, then BV 

 

 

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22 hours ago, bostonangler said:

The city told the Target Center, where the Oct. 10 rally is scheduled to be held, that it would have to pay the $530,000 security costs, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

The Trump campaign still owes nine cities at least $841,219 in total for police security for previous rallies, according to a report from the Center for Public Integrity.

It still does not add up and still looks like extortion. Take that total and divide it up and that comes out to $93,468 each city. And he wants 5 times that? It is clearly political and should not be happening.

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1 minute ago, 8th ID said:

It still does not add up and still looks like extortion. Take that total and divide it up and that comes out to $93,468 each city. And he wants 5 times that? It is clearly political and should not be happening.

 

Look he is a sleaze bag... If you think he is so great, why don't you pay off the 10 cities he has stiffed??? He is such a loser.

 

B/A

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2 minutes ago, 8th ID said:

It still does not add up and still looks like extortion. Take that total and divide it up and that comes out to $93,468 each city. And he wants 5 times that? It is clearly political and should not be happening.

 

Perhaps you're assuming partial payments weren't paid to those cities.  Donald's notorious for paying what he wants to pay, not what he owes.  He's lived his whole life that way and loves to brag about it.

 

GO RV, then BV 

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22 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Your deceit and diabolical motives are on full display. Trump isn't upset about paying, and you know that, he's upset at being charged 15 times what Obama was. 

 

Tell it to those 10 other cities.... I hope he comes and stiffs your town... Your reaction would be most interesting.

 

B/A

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A lefty loon's attempt to shut down Free Speech yet again. <_<

 

He's afraid Trump's message will resonate loudly in his City,

the sniveling little kommie coward!  :P

 

Voters are getting wise to the left's intemperate nonsense.

So the socialist's knee-jerk reaction is to stifle every voice contrary to their kommie mantra. 

 

Whatta ya bet this little tool doesn't see another term in office.

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28 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

Let me give you drunkards a quick lesson in my industry, broadcasting. Politicians pay in advance for any media they purchase or they don't get on. Everyone knows politicians will screw you faster than you can say damn.

 

B/A

You Really want to go down this road 

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45 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

You Really want to go down this road 

 

You sling terms at people on this forum like "deceitful liars" and then bristle at the term drunkards?....maybe stopping yourself from the name calling you rail against would be best.  As always, just my opinion.

 

GO RV, then BV 

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9 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

You sling terms at people on this forum like "deceitful liars" and then bristle at the term drunkards?....maybe stopping yourself from the name calling you rail against would be best.  As always, just my opinion.

 

GO RV, then BV 

I  call out liberals as deceitful liars. Which is perfectly acceptable since no one here claims to be a liberal. 

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1 hour ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

I  call out liberals as deceitful liars. Which is perfectly acceptable since no one here claims to be a liberal. 

 

I know for sure you didn't check ALL the 38,000 / 40,000 members here...Most likely somebody has not had the chance yet to claim he/ she is one....Understandably so seeing the climate , I'd add

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