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Minneapolis will recoup $100,000 in security costs for Trump’s 2019 rally at Target Center

City negotiates deal to recoup money from the operator of Target Center.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey expects to announce a negotiated deal Thursday to recoup $100,000 from Target Center operator ASM Global for the cost of hosting President Donald Trump’s October 2019 rally at the city-owned arena.

“We are recovering half of what we can get under the law,” Frey said, adding: “We have a duty to protect free speech, but we don’t have a duty to subsidize it.”

The deal is subject to City Council approval and could come up for a vote as soon as Feb. 12. Continue reading.

Minneapolis mayor: We saw Trump stiffing cities for his other rallies, so we told him to pay up

Washington Post logoThanks to an administration in Washington committed to cutting federal funding for local government and a Congress plagued by gridlock, city leaders often face difficult choices without reliable outside support. And lacking the ability to levy an income tax, cities are then forced to rely on regressive property taxes for essential work.

So late last month when President Trump announced that he would hold a campaign rally in Minneapolis, where I’m the mayor, I had two questions about resources. First, how much extra work would city employees need to do? Second, how could the city secure reimbursement for those excess costs on behalf of the city’s taxpayers?

The venue the campaign chose, Target Center, is publicly owned but privately operated. Under the terms of the city’s contract with the operator, Minneapolis is entitled to reimbursement for certain costs. In our view, those include excess costs for public safety and traffic control, among other services. Had the venue been privately owned, we wouldn’t have had as much leverage to recoup costs.

View the complete commentary by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on The Washington Post website here.

Trump says immigrants are unwelcome in Minnesota. What’s unwelcome is his bigotry.

Washington Post logoIN A season of bigotry, President Trump has often reveled in the role of bigotry’s loudest troubadour, spouting hateful rhetoric designed to sow and exploit racial, ethnic and nationalist discord. At a campaign rally in Minneapolis on Thursday, he returned to the theme, at the expense of Minnesota’s community of Somalis, eliciting jeers and boos at their very mention from his audience.

Telegraphing what is certain to be among his favorite refrains in the 2020 campaign, Mr. Trump remarked on the “impact” of Minnesota’s 50,000 Somalis, who began arriving there a quarter-century ago as refugees and now represent roughly 1 percent of the state’s population. Referring to an executive order he issued recently, the president said he will prohibit refugee resettlements unless states and cities expressly consent to them.

“Believe me,” he said of his policy to grant communities what amounts to a veto on refugee resettlement, “no other president would be doing that.”

View the complete editorial by The Washington Post Editorial Board on their website here.

Fake Pro-Trump News Exposed In Minnesota

False rumors spread like wildfire during President Donald Trump’s visit to Minneapolis on Thursday.

MINNEAPOLIS — Numerous rumors and fake news stories spread online during President Donald Trump’s visit to Minneapolis Thursday. One of the more humorous ones — for anyone familiar with Minnesota’s climate during the month of October — involved a cactus and desert background.

“There are lines extending OUTSIDE OF THE PARKING lot,” tweeted “The Best American” account.

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There are lines extending OUTSIDE OF THE PARKING lot for the rally at the Target Center.

It’s a freakin’ rock concert. I’ve never seen anything like it!

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The hilarious attempt at promoting fake news was quickly debunked. The post included a photo of a long line, with a dry, sunny scene.

View the complete October 11 article by William Bornhoft on the Southwest Minneapolis, MN Patch website here.

Trump attacks Bidens in personal and coarse terms at Minnesota rally

Washington Post logoMINNEAPOLIS — President Trump leveled some of his most personal attacks yet against Joe Biden and his family at his first campaign rally since House Democrats launched their impeachment inquiry, highlighting unsubstantiated claims about his potential 2020 rival’s son and using profanity to describe Biden’s tenure as vice president.

At the Target Center here, Trump repeated his dubious claims that Hunter Biden secured $1.5 billion for an investment fund in China while his father served as Barack Obama’s vice president, and he mocked Hunter Biden’s personal problems, including his discharge from the Navy after he tested positive for cocaine use.

“Hunter, you know nothing about energy, you know nothing about China, you know nothing about anything, frankly,” Trump said to a near-capacity crowd. “Hunter, you’re a loser.”

View the complete October 11 article by Seung Min Kim and Aaron Blake on The Washington Post website here.

‘Off-script’ Trump rails against impeachment, Democrats at feisty rally

The Hill logoPresident Trump on Thursday eviscerated House Democrats at a campaign rally in Minneapolis, accusing them of attempting an “overthrow” of the government and pursuing an “insane” impeachment inquiry in order to bruise him ahead of the 2020 election.

“Now the do-nothing Democrat con artists and scammers are getting desperate. Thirteen months, they’ve got to move fast, because they’re not beating us at the polls and they know it — despite the phony polls,” Trump told the screaming crowd.

“They know they can’t win the 2020 election, so they’re pursuing the insane impeachment witch hunt,” Trump said.

View the complete October 10 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.

The High Cost Of Campaign Rallies

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — From extra security to police overtime, campaign rallies are not cheap.

Despite the cost, the FEC doesn’t require congressional or presidential campaigns committees to pay states or cities back for rally-related expenses.

They can use campaign funds to reimburse security costs, but they aren’t required to.

View the complete October 8 post by Mary McGuire on the WCCO TV website here.