{"id":33444,"date":"2024-10-14T22:18:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T03:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33444"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T03:37:56","slug":"minnesota-city-says-trump-campaign-still-owes-more-than-200000-for-july-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33444","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota city says Trump campaign still owes more than $200,000 for July rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign still owes St. Cloud nearly $209,000 for services related to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-vance-minnesota-harris-2024-presidential-election-22aee6ecb821032328c1e3d210b27733\"><u>July rally<\/u><\/a>, officials from the central Minnesota city say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The bill is for services beyond what the city normally provides, The Minnesota Star Tribune&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/trump-campaign-misses-deadline-to-pay-st-cloud-for-rally\/601162096\"><u>reported<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A request for comment emailed by The Associated Press to Trump\u2019s campaign was not immediately returned Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump and running mate JD Vance spoke to a hockey arena on St. Cloud State University\u2019s campus July 27. An overflow crowd watched Trump speak for more than an hour and a half on a big screen outside the arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Expenses include $63,000 for extra police work during the rally, $62,000 to change a construction project near where the rally was held, and close to $2,000 for IT-related services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">St. Cloud City Administrator Matt Staehling on Monday told the newspaper that the city bills the White House for campaign stops and other events that require city services, such as half-marathon races. The White House is not billed for official events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s campaign in August paid a $35,000 bill from St. Cloud State University related to the July rally, Athletic Director Holly Schreiner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-vance-election-rally-minnesota-st-cloud-f68ade94a90f0125f5eb7822ff3e9a59\">apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign still owes St. Cloud nearly $209,000 for services related to a&nbsp;July rally, officials from the central Minnesota city say. The bill is for services beyond what the city normally provides, The Minnesota Star Tribune&nbsp;reported&nbsp;Monday. A request for comment emailed by The Associated Press to Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1196,27042,30818,30817,1230],"class_list":["post-33444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-minnesota","tag-the-campaign","tag-the-fees","tag-the-government","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33446,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33444\/revisions\/33446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}