The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump SCREWS OVER Cities and Contractors in LAST DAYS

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump refusing to pay cities and contractors and insulting the cities where he’s speaking at the last leg of the presidential campaign. Ollie: Head to https://ollie.com and use promo code: MEIDAS to receive 60% OFF your FIRST BOX of meals when you subscribe today! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. In the final stretch of this election, Donald Trump is going city to city, surprise, surprise, not paying his bills, insulting the cities and insulting the people in the crowd. Not to mention if you saw our earlier reporting over the weekend, Donald Trump is also stranding his crowds without transportation, apparently not booking transportation to leave the venues and trapping them all throughout the night in these locations. But take a look. Let's focus here on Donald Trump not making payments to the cities and stiffing them on the bills because when he goes in these events that he does the venues and he uses all of the local police forces for the big show of authoritarian force like he likes to do, you're

supposed to pay back the cities. Here's the NBC report out. Cities seek more than $750,000 in unpaid bills for Trump campaign events since 2016. At least four cities and a county are still waiting to be reimbursed for costs associated with local law enforcement and first responders during Trump visits. And just think about that. Yes, $750,000 is a lot of money, but in the swing of things, with the money that Donald Trump's raised and the $60, $70, $80, $100 million he's paid on legal fees, you have to wonder why not just pay the cities back? Why not pay the workers? Why not pay the contractors? Because Donald Trump is a psychopath

and he gets joy. I mean this sincerely, clinically. He gets joy out of stiffing workers and he gets off on it, screwing people off. That brings him happiness, knowing that people are suffering and they have to go to him and beg for a check. He wants people to beg so he can say no. And that's why he talks about begging like a dog, because for him, it's about power. And he likes bringing people down like that. Take a look. Former President Donald Trump held a third rally last month in Erie, Pennsylvania, which sits in the northwest corner of a swing state that could decide who wins the White House.

Like the two other times Trump has been too eerie to rev up his supporters, he left without paying the bill. City officials haven't yet tallied up what Trump campaign owes Erie for public safety costs for his most recent rally in September. But according to a city official, Trump owes the city more than $40,000 for the rallies he held there in 2018 and 2023. It's not the only city that Donald Trump owes money to. And again, he owes the money for his most recent event, including Erie. Four cities and a county confirmed that they owe money. The price tag is over $750,000. Reach for comment. A Trump campaign official said in a text message that questions related to local law enforcement and first responder cost should be directed to secret service. Ask the secret, so blame the secret service for it. That's what they're doing.

You have at least two municipalities seeking reimbursements, said that they didn't have formal agreements, but that's what you're supposed to do. The agreement doesn't have to be formal. When you use the resources, you pay it. When you need an ambulance, when you need medical services, you don't go, oh, did I have a formal agreement in place before utilizing city services? No, you get a bill for those things and you've got to pay those things. It goes on to talk about some of these areas. El Paso, Texas is seeking reimbursement of more than $569,000. You have Spokane, Washington, $65,000. You have Missoula County, Montana, at least $13,000.

Mesa, Arizona, about $65,000. And by the way, I'm sure there are dozens of other cities that just didn't go on the record, but it isn't unique to these, right? I'm sure every single city that Donald Trump goes to has this issue and maybe they're just afraid to talk about it to the press or whatever, but this is systemic. This is who he is. By the way, you know who said this is who he is back in 2016 before she's missed alternative facts? Kellyanne Conway. And she says, Donald Trump, that's what he does. The guy's known for stiffing people. Here, play the clip. He says he's for the little guy, but he's actually built a lot

of his businesses on the backs of the little guy. And he's a lot of little guys through eminent domain or through not paying contractors after you've built something that little guys have suffered and so in addition to stiffing the the cities Donald Trump also brags about stiffing the workers and not paying the workers for example one of the common things we see in his speeches is he'll talk about not paying the workers and he'll say, oh, well, you know, the microphones are working. I'm not going to pay you. Here, play the clip.

But Americans are not struggling. You know, this is the worst platform. Who put this stage up? The freaking place is falling down. I noticed it keeps tilting further left. Like too many other things. What a crappy contractor this was. No, it's true. You know, I'm known as being a pretty tough negotiator and sometimes I get a bad rep a pretty tough negotiator. And sometimes I get a bad rep. A contractor does a bad job. I met a lot of great contractors, but he does a bad job. I

don't pay him. And here's a video of Donald Trump saying how he doesn't pay overtime and that he makes sure he stiffs workers on overtime pay. Just think about this. He has people behind him who are wearing. Now we know that the people who Donald Trump dresses up in union workers for Trump or firefighters for Trump aren't actually firefighters or unions or autoworkers. At least in the recent reporting that we know of, those people have been exposed by local media as actually not union workers and not autoworker union workers and not firefighters. It's kind of stolen valor stuff that Donald Trump's doing over and over again. But Donald Trump will say, I will not pay overtime. I will stiff him. And he like brags about it in his speech.

Here, play the clip. A lot of people don't give. I know a lot about overtime. I'd hated to give overtime. I hated it. I'd get other people. I shouldn't say this, but I'd get other people in. I wouldn't pay.

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That's O-L-L-I-E.com promo code Midas. M-E-I-D-A-S. They even offer a clean bowl guarantee. So if you're not satisfied, you'd get your money back. You have to wonder sometimes the pathology of a Trump supporter. You're clapping while the guy is saying that he's going to stiff you and not pay you for your hard work and you like that? You must just like being treated like absolute crap. Let me show you, though, Donald Trump's long history of not paying contractors.

So here's an individual that has gone viral on TikTok. And here she talks about, someone goes, what did Trump do to you? There are thousands, thousands of stories like this. Here, play her clip. The job passed inspection and was the only one that passed the inspection the first time, every time. And once he billed Trump for the money

Trump said that he was going to give him, never heard from Trump again. My dad tried over a course of five years to get his money back and Trump ended up trying to sue him for harassment. And that ruined my family because we ended up homeless. My mom ended up being a drug addict. She had to go into rehab. My dad could never catch his footing again. Us kids were just on our own by the

time we were teenagers. And Trump never cared. He never cared. So yeah, that's what Trump did to me. And here's another story right here. Trump screwing a lot of contractors by not paying them. Trump is a con man his whole life. Here, play this other story. He put so many good contractors out of business. I'm running to give back to this country, which has been so very good to me. It was one of those things. It's like, it's Donald Trump. You know, what could go wrong? Stephen Jenkins and his sister, Beth Rosser, are second-generation owners of Triad Building

Specialties, a business built by their father, Forrest. When Trump's Taj Mahal began construction, Triad won the bid to install every toilet partition inside the casino's bathrooms. It was the largest contract their family business had ever landed. We bill 100, 150,000 a month. That's a really good month for us. And this was almost $300,000 in one contract. Everyone was, you know, it was a big job. It was great. But as Triad's workers wrapped up the project, talk started swirling that contractors weren't getting paid. When the Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy in 1991,

Triad was left with this $231,000 claim in court. They say they ended up with a payout of just $70,000. It's hard for me to talk about it, but he wanted all four of us to work. Jenkins gets emotional when he remembers how their father struggled to keep the business standing. He was distraught. It was, you know, he's watching something

that he built his whole life start to slip through his fingers. A generous loan, they say, saved the Pennsylvania company. He didn't go to a bank for the loan. He borrowed it off of a friend. Here is a union worker who's talking about how he doesn't support Trump because he knows that Trump's full of crap and Trump doesn't pay people. Trump has done this to thousands of people, not paying contractors, workers, dry cleaners, landscaping, window washers. Here, play the clip.

Election year, it's a huge election. We got a polarizing figure in Donald Trump. This guy claims to be for the working class, but he's never proved that. What are your thoughts on him and what he's been saying about being for the working men and women in this country? No, history speaks for itself. This man's never been for the working man, okay, or woman there, Jimmy. So when this guy was a builder in New York City, okay, where he cut his teeth, he ripped off every trades person that he could. He ripped off every contractor he could. He put more small businesses out than any government body would ever be able to do. And when he was a president, he was elected the first term,

building trades had him come to DC. He spoke at the NAV2 conference. I was there. He promised us that he was going to be a building president. He was going to build buildings. He was going to use our people to build them. He told us that he was going to have an infrastructure bill done by Tuesday. He said he was going to help some of these pension plans be fixed by Wednesday. Well, you know what? Just like all of his other promises to his supporters, he didn't deliver to us either. Okay? So you can sit here and you can go off of passion.

You can go off of promises. You can go off of broken dreams. Or you can stick with who's going to deliver. And that's going to be Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. They gave us an infrastructure bill. They gave us the Chip and Science Act. They gave us the American Rescue Plan. Checkbox one, two, and three. They got us working. bill. They gave us a chip in Science Act. They gave us the American Rescue Plan. Checkbox one, two, and three.

They got us working. They fixed the pension, and they want our people to go to work. Vote for your paycheck. And here's what Mark Cuban had to say about that as well. This is well known. Here, play this clip. Look, here's something that just astonished me. When he was going through his trials in New York for misleading on his loan forms. Right. During one of the trials, Michael Cohen got up there to testify and he testified about how Donald Trump asked him to short pay vendors.

And he was proud of the fact that he did it for Mr. Trump, as he called him. Right. I don't know why, but I expected, you know, how he would hold a little press impromptu press conference after each day of the trial? For some reason, I thought he would come out and say, no, I never asked him to short pay vendors. Didn't say a word about it. Probably the worst thing you could say about a business person is he short pays his vendors. He doesn't pay what he owes. That is the ultimate arbiter of trust that you have with any business person. Do they pay you when you do work for them,

yes or no? He was proud of the fact, didn't question it at all. When you rip off hardworking Americans, you are not qualified to be president of the United States of America. Here's Donald Trump trashing the people of Detroit and saying that if Vice President Kamala Harris were to win, the country's going to be really bad like Detroit. And he's saying this at the Detroit Economic Club. Here, play this clip. I don't think anything that we're talking about today is high on her list. The whole country's going to be like, you want to know the truth?

It'll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president. You're going to have a mess on your hands. And finally, I may have shown you this video. You may have seen it before, but this is a few minutes, this story, but watch as this individual tells this story about Donald Trump and how Donald Trump screwed over his friend, who ultimately unalived himself because of what Donald Trump did to him. Play this clip. I own a company that works with a lot of contractors. Do estimates and whatnot for contractors. A lot of other support for other folks in the industry,

but that's an upset. Anyway, what happened was a buddy of mine that was a contractor up in New Jersey called me up one day and said, hey, man, I got this opportunity to do this business with Trump. And it's just it's huge. And I think I'm going to do it, but it might be in your best interest to think that through because, you know, the honest truth is that dog bites. And he said, yeah, I understand. But I mean, I'm gonna write a tight contract and blah, blah, blah, you know. So he takes the gig. And he tells me later he's having a little bit of problems getting paid. Fast forward three and a half years. He still hasn't been paid his $3.5 million.

He's been worn down pretty awfully. And Trump's attorneys said that they would pay him $1.2 million. And that was it. He took the $1.2 million. The day that that showed up as certified funds, he took the title to every truck he owned. He owned a pretty decent sized company. He took a bill of sale for a bunch of other equipment,

generators, arc welders, all kinds of stuff. Ladders, you name it. Chip crane. He went to another place and he sold all of that and walked out with certified funds. He went to the bank.

He deposited those funds into the bank. Then he gave a list of amounts and people and companies that he needed to cut checks to. And they cut certified funds to all those individuals. He took those checks. He went down to the post office. He individually sent every one of them out by express mail. And then he went home and he blew his brains out.

That's who Donald Trump is. And this is what Donald Trump is doing the final week or final weeks before election day. I just wanted to bring it to your attention. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.