We've all seen the Malignant Loser's fatuousness once again on display at a campaign event in which he made a typically odd, inaccurate, and dangerous claim. From Saturday, February 10, 2024:
Former president Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on NATO on Saturday, claiming he suggested to a foreign leader that he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to member countries he views as not spending enough on their own defense.
“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?,’” Trump said during a rally at Coastal Carolina University. “I said, ‘You didn’t pay. You’re delinquent.’ He said, ‘Yes, let’s say that happened.’ No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.” (our emphasis)
(Once again, NATO doesn't create "bills" for member defense. Its members have a target guideline of 2% of GDP spending on defense. Most member countries are meeting that target guideline, and all are paying their share of NATO's common budget.)
Well, if there's one thing the Malignant Loser is expert on and can speak to with some authority, it's not paying bills. (That's why some of the people who've worked for him took to calling him Deadbeat Donald.)
From the wayback machine, circa 2016:
During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.
The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resort’s builder.
Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. “That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.
At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others... (our emphasis)
There's much more at the link if you need further convincing and we're sure you don't.
Deadbeat Donald has kept up this tradition of stiffing people all the way to the present (poor bankrupt Rudy "Toot Toot" Giuliani being a recent prime example of Deadbeat Donald's failing to pay legal bills). He stiffs pollsters, he stiffs local municipalities that host his Nuremberg rallies, etc., etc. That he should be out campaigning using one of his "sir" stories to complain about NATO deadbeats that don't exist takes more than his usual amount of projection and chutzpah.
