Texas town continues to demand $500,000 from Trump four years after hosting rally

Nearly five years after he held a reelection rally in El Paso, Texas, Donald Trump still owes the city more than $500,000 for police coverage, trash pickup and other municipal services — and local leaders have now slapped a six-figure late fee on the ex-president’s outstanding bill.

The City of El Paso sent an “updated invoice statement” to the Trump campaign that includes a one-time delinquency charge of $98,787.58, KTSM reported on Monday.

That adds a 21 percent premium to Trump’s original bill of $470,417.05, spread across six different city agencies. In all, El Paso authorities say the self-professed “law-and-order candidate” has stiffed them over $60,630.84 in Fire Department costs, $6,286.57 in Department of Aviation costs, $6,452 in Streets & Maintenance Department costs, $528 in Health Department costs, $15,577.52 in mass transit costs, and $380,942.12 in Police Department costs.

In all, Trump now owes El Paso $569,204.63, according to KTSM.

Trump held the rally in question on February 11, 2019, at the El Paso County Coliseum, and was billed on March 27, 2019, with payment due April 26, 2019, the invoice shows. The city followed up with a letter on May 23, 2019, to the Trump campaign, which read, “We are contacting you regarding the past due invoice(s) listed above. We realize this may have been an oversight on your part; however, your account with the city of El Paso is extremely past due.”

The Trump campaign paid $5,000 in advance to the Coliseum, according to the CEO of the El Paso Sports Commission.

It is hardly Trump’s only unpaid bill, nor is it the longest-pending.

Trump still owes the City of Bozeman, Montana, where he held a rally last Friday, nearly $13,000 in fees he racked up in 2018, which includes