Dishwashers, Plumbers, Waiters & Lawyers: Hundreds Accuse Trump of Failing to Pay for Their Work

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8 жыл бұрын

democracynow.org - A new USA Today exposé finds hundreds of former employees and contractors have accused Republican presidential presumptive nominee Donald Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Victims have included a dishwasher in Florida, a glass company in New Jersey, a carpet company, a plumber, 48 waiters, dozens of bartenders at his resorts and clubs, and even several law firms that once represented him in these labor lawsuits. We speak to Steve Reilly, an investigative reporter and data specialist for the USA Today Network. His new exclusive is called "Hundreds Allege Donald Trump Doesn’t Pay His Bills."
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@carloscarretero5907 8 жыл бұрын

He is pure EVIL!!!!!

@michaelRay2576 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, & even more Demonic in 2023

@janncoons7445 5 ай бұрын

Evil isn't the word I use for drumpf because I don't think even Satan's going to claim in

@tonisumblin2719 3 ай бұрын

@@janncoons7445I AGREE.

@boredagainpiston 3 ай бұрын

@@janncoons7445 maybe "gross" is a better description?

@TinaWina1 3 жыл бұрын

No surprise for this con man and his family to stiff hard working people.

@badlyniceness2315 3 ай бұрын

Now that he’s had time to see how our nation works,it has no chance to survive his next attack. Imagine,laying down to sleep ,knowing you failed to pay your workers. Daddy’s little Grifter.

@Allen75000 8 жыл бұрын

billionaire can't pay his employees, that's rich

@angellight5040 8 жыл бұрын

They say he bankrupted his businesse to avoid paying his bills.

@rickbonamassa3045 8 жыл бұрын

Allen 750: Yes that is fucking very rich. The big shot billionaire can't pay the lowly paint co. Just say they did lousy work. He's beyond shameless. It bears repeating : billionaire can't pay his debts that's really rich

@brianblair8043 8 жыл бұрын

+Angel Light No the Place About to go Bank Rapt,U File Corporate Inversion File Bank Rapt On that Company and Everything Went Bank Rapt around it and So Would have those 4 Company's He got out Early .I go on And on About what Hillary and Bill has Done 10 Million Times worse than He ever has.When U Have 500 Different Company's Of Deals 4 Filed For Bank Rapt .The Media does not Know what the fuck there talking about and is Lying Like Hell

@toddlavigne6441 7 жыл бұрын

he thinks claiming a job isn't well done is a legit reason not to pay. It's NOT. It has to proven in court and the judge has to agree the work was sub-standard

@geoffdearth8575 6 жыл бұрын

No one knows whether he has even $1 billion since he won't release any financial records. Maybe Robert Mueller will fix that.

@bobbywrongway6494 3 жыл бұрын

4 years later and it is satisfying to see his implosion.

@isabelbarroso3381 7 ай бұрын

This is what happens when a person feels it's in title to receive anything and everything in exchange for nothing.

@daveogarf 3 ай бұрын

(*he's entitled) That's the "Toxic" in "Toxic Narcissist".

@HuyLe-sb7cw 7 жыл бұрын

how do you think he got billions? yes, scrapping pennies from the poors

@amutah8063 3 жыл бұрын

If someone is accused of not paying his employees and you still represent him in court then don't be surprised when they don't pay you.

@sharonbignell6113 6 ай бұрын

In his book he says use workers who can’t afford large legal fees because then they can’t sue you when you don’t pay them

@laurakrajnikburick2731 5 ай бұрын

That's disgusting that anyone with that much money won't pay their bills.

@elaynevaldez7526 4 ай бұрын

Crock times up....DJT 2024 YEARS IN PRISON.

@pcset12 4 ай бұрын

Exactly...this is a deliberate strategy to get out of paying his debts or of forcing the contractors to settle for lower payment in order to avoid legal fees...there is a video of a former Trump supporter who's friend committed suicide because Trump shortchanged him by 2 million dollars. The sooner he is jailed the better.

@robarbour3982 3 ай бұрын

If he says he does something, it actually means the opposite.

@robarbour3982 3 ай бұрын

@laurakrajnikburick2731 you're under the illusion he has a lot of money, may not be true.?

@warpedjaffas1 8 жыл бұрын

I've worked on both sides of this argument and I can tell you that from a contractors perspective you never let a financially larger client rack up to much debt as they know that you'll fold under the weight of the legal fees to recoup the debt if they decide not to honor the debt. Large financial clients should always be dealt with on a progressive payment contract consisting of time to pay and limits on the amount of debt they can incur to avoid this situation. If the client isn't prepared to pay progressively as the work is done then you should be wary of why and question if it's worth the risk. Usually the answer is no.

@chrisgreco4249 7 ай бұрын

I've been a skilled artisan all my working life and not one customer in 40 years has ever withheld even a penny because they were disappointed with the quality of my work, or the attention and service I provide. Trump has been pedaling his BIG LIE his whole life. Behind the suits and ties, the comb over, and the make-up is a thoroughly disreputable, degenerate, greedy, dishonest, morally bankrupt, seditious scoundrel who has made it crystal clear that if re-elected he intends to turn America into a military dictatorship. There has never been a greater threat to our democracy in all of American history as Donald Trump.

@janncoons7445 5 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT ADVICE!!!

@paulchace411 5 ай бұрын

There ought to be a public list of all the contractors and employees who were not paid as promised and see what the workers think of him then

@runningbull6178 8 жыл бұрын

trump said it him self he could do anything and would not lose any supporters

@rudyishoggin 8 жыл бұрын

trump loves the poorly educated..and the simple

@unicorn_unicorn6252 4 ай бұрын

@@rudyishoggini dont like trump. But who else am i supposed to vote for? We simply dont have another choice. Im not voting lib

@rudyishoggin 4 ай бұрын

@@unicorn_unicorn6252 so you are simple hahahahah

@unicorn_unicorn6252 4 ай бұрын

@@rudyishoggin whaddya mean i am simple. Liberals are worse. Too lenient over the borders, very light when punishing criminals. Now im forced to vote trump bcs libs make no sense. I dont like voting trump either. But libs would legit destroy the country with their lax policies

@unicorn_unicorn6252 4 ай бұрын

@@rudyishoggin look at lib states and how they let criminals who have commit violent crimes back to back get only a slap on the wrist and allowed back on the streets. Thats a scary place to live in.

@madambluewave 11 ай бұрын

He did that to my dad except for on a huge scale and my dad lost everything.

@donnakebabmat5413 5 ай бұрын

But your dad keeps his integrity.

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 2 ай бұрын

Oh no!!!! So sorry!!!

@jaelynnzee9091 8 жыл бұрын

How is any regular person supposed to find justice in the system when most of the time it bankrupts them due to lawyers fees, or they can't even afford one to bring charges when wronged? This system is not the US I thought I was living in and learned about when growing up.

@gooseman8361 3 жыл бұрын

There is a perfect example of a person who did as he pleased. Then without having to deal with consequences, this man's pride and ego grew so much. He didn't care who it was if he felt he can get over on you, he'd do it. Nobody ever had the balls to put this man in his place! That's why he is the way he is. That man never dealt with reprocushions. That's because no one had the balls to put a hurting on him when he needed it. Very simply, get two pair of boxing gloves, put him in a ring with whomever has a situation with and get it in.

@Greg-yu4ij Жыл бұрын

Maybe he was going bankrupt or had low reserves and couldn’t pay. Either way working as a laborer I’ve been screwed out of money owed by FAMILY, again because they were going out of business since they themselves had big customers fail to pay. Why? A recession. So I learned my lesson so next time I demanded cash EVERY day after work and he paid it.

@aprinc1960 8 жыл бұрын

All companies need to stop doing business with Trump and his companies. Don't waste your time with that deadbeat!

@taximancharles 7 жыл бұрын

I agree, boycott Trump!

@janncoons7445 5 ай бұрын

And the companies you do see doing business with him you stay away from

@elaynevaldez7526 4 ай бұрын

His MO is postpone postpone postpone, that's how he gets away Bag of S#$%.

@cynthiahawkins2389 6 жыл бұрын

The unions in NY I heard, actually refused to do the building demolition/renovation (maybe they knew something the public did NOT, back at the time), so Trump "sent for foreign workers" who he knew would not protest poor wages, or as it turned - out NO WAGES AT ALL. This video was posted in 2016. And now we are watching a train wreck in the White House.

@dem7615 5 ай бұрын

As he bashed immigrants his hotel workers are mostly that.. sad for them as he does not think they are worth anything.. so two faced it's stunning

@clermontmusic 8 жыл бұрын

I have been saying this for months. This is a deeper issue than even this report indicates. It is standard operating procedure for real estate development and construction in NY.

@ddsmax 8 жыл бұрын

This needs more views. Shoutout my boy steve

@chalky6844 8 жыл бұрын

TRUMP....Going to make his Bank Account great again.

@georgethk9459 5 жыл бұрын

@panthera50 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, he got 270 million from idiots who think he's God. 😈

@graciebara8280 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@krimmer66 3 жыл бұрын

@@panthera50 and he's no less disgusting than he was in the 80's... bankrupting a company with 20 workers over a lousy 80k.

@angelareminiscenza6233 3 жыл бұрын

How can all theses people be so retarded? Can they see what this b. Stars is doing . I don't understand beyond me. There are 2 laws 1 for the very rich 1 for very poor. Which are all starving right now. Kick this dictator out. Man!!!

@cynthiahawkins2389 6 жыл бұрын

Those guys who came from Eastern Europe to do work on a building. They were stiffed by Trump, and worse, stranded in the United States, penniless. WTF?

@eileencremin5162 3 жыл бұрын

Hope you have Scotland included . They are still waiting I believe

@aszhara2900 8 жыл бұрын

The conservatives in this comment section are a bad parody of themselves. America has truly some lunatics.

@lindalambertson6294 7 ай бұрын

His supporters see this as the act of a smart man. They probably would think differently if he had put them out of work or caused them to file bankruptcy. They just don't care how many people he has hurt because it hasn't touched them. They are as sick as trump.

@callicordova4066 3 ай бұрын

Agree completely. His cult member are the real problem.

@garyanderson9467 8 жыл бұрын

what the hell is going on? For once I find a group of intelligent and informed people who don't worship trump. I love it.

@Blaydelk 8 жыл бұрын

Look around, we are all over, Trump is a con man and a cheap one at that, he delivers snake oil to those in need of lies. Isn't it enough to know that he lies about his wealth? He has no where near 10 billion, likely less than four billion. Trump is a pathological liar, Trump is a tax evader, Trump uses tax and bankruptcy laws to build his nest at the expense of other people. Trump is a business failure: Tell me about Buffett's plane?

@garyanderson9467 7 жыл бұрын

Blayde Keel You're preaching to the choir.

@silverpurkat 7 жыл бұрын

Tell me how he will make it great again?? I have personally dealt with these locusts for years and they never change and those who think he will help you think again! I don't care for Hillary either but I would rather see her in office then someone like him who destroys everything he touches!

@ceojr1963 7 жыл бұрын

In a nutshell, "if you fail to make money on one of my projects, you clearly aren't me." ..........

@ontaka5997 7 жыл бұрын

How to get rich Trump style: Take a big bonus as a reward from investor's money. Don't pay your workers, sub-contractors and investors. I wonder how he managed to hide his wealth when he filed for bankruptcy. The big question is how do you get away with this ?

@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm 8 ай бұрын

He doesn't need to hide his wealth. He files for bankruptcy under a company name. Only that company loses assets. Trump keeps all of his personal and other company assets.

@lauratucker4628 3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing about this years ago.

@a.peoples2394 8 жыл бұрын

Just another evil devil!!!

@morgan1286 7 жыл бұрын

How can he get away without paying law firms? Is there a workaround for politicians? I'm sure if I didn't pay I would go to prison.

@angelareminiscenza6233 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. He shits in gold toilet bowl. We don't dictator capitalist. He could shoot someone on 5th Ave. And get away with it. Soooo true!!!!!!!!!!

@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm 8 ай бұрын

Perhaps he filed for bankruptcy under the company in which he acquired their services.

@christinaariola-slaughter8351 Жыл бұрын

And once again nothing happens to him 😓😖😡

@cathyschneider2126 8 жыл бұрын

So why didn't the reporter ask follow-up questions or make factual statements to show that Trump was lying?

@pdoylemi 8 жыл бұрын

Four bankruptcies, and he claims to pay his bills? Just in his four bankruptcies, he shed well over a billion dollars in debt. That's all unpaid bills - money in his pocket essentially. If I failed to pay more than a billion dollars in bills (even if it was legal) I would not be bragging about how proud I am of my record for paying my bills.

@kvdgadj 7 жыл бұрын

How come we don't heard , about all those law suit againest Trump? This should be told at the election

@lark6spur 5 жыл бұрын

It has been reported only folks don't pay attention.

@margritkaminsky1470 5 ай бұрын

Have not some cities not gotten the money that he was supposed to pay for the events he held in them?

@ccwshoreline 6 жыл бұрын

This man could not manage a real job. He can only jump in and take credit for others labor.

@jetta2134 5 ай бұрын

Others labor that he didn't pay for?

@richardturner2455 3 ай бұрын

None of those law suits were dismissed as frivolous or without merit? He's good at getting sued. It finally caught up to him. Apparently Stormy Daniel's did a better job, and in less time. A study in VALUES.

@sdscipio 5 жыл бұрын

All this info and he was still elected ..... WOW

@stevenmoomey2115 4 ай бұрын

It’s well known, in the Mid-Atlantic area, that he stiffs Contractors.

@johnrandle8365 3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't appear trump knows what a conscience is let alone having any scruples at all sooner gone the better.

@williamschlenger1518 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget billboard co.s I worked for Gannett outdoor advertising.He didn't pay them.

@ddsmax 8 жыл бұрын

This was dank. Shout out my boi steve.

@johnuhelski8613 6 ай бұрын

THANKS for ALL you do Amy !! Keep the facts in focus !!

@ericfrantzen2516 5 ай бұрын

I believe he asked for FACTS, Amy!

@karenshaub8273 6 жыл бұрын

I wou l d be thrilled to contribute to a fund for litigating their cases! Any of their thinking about setting up funds?

@ravisriram6746 5 ай бұрын

That's why his so-called book should have been titled: "The Art of The Steal".

@martinpike803 3 жыл бұрын

He will go to court and work it out that he will pay 20%of what he owes as these people go belly up

@moonroxxit 2 ай бұрын

WOW.

@mmrrmex01 7 жыл бұрын

Thug!!!

@pajamasflannel 8 жыл бұрын

I'd hoped to see parties that went unpaid by Trump as a result of his bankruptcy claims.

@itstiminhere1 3 ай бұрын

Thank you USA Today! I've been telling this truth since 2015! It has been well known for decades.

@edkemper4385 8 жыл бұрын

A Republican not being honest? How could this be?

@josephf7720 3 жыл бұрын

Character matters. He has none.

@Poncho758 4 ай бұрын

I’m …I’m….I’m…I’m I can’t even complete a sentence

@jararaca88 8 жыл бұрын

wow...low ball....

@nbuehster 4 жыл бұрын

About dishwashers, he has a working one. It's called Melania. Alternately: If his dishwasher doesn't work, why doesn't he dump it for a newer one. And Trump would definitely know about "showers".

@doonsiedoo9doonsiedoo984 5 ай бұрын

This doesn't even touch all the international dealings. Many deals in other countries he hasn't paid on.

@matthewdelotto7623 8 жыл бұрын

Who wants to play a drinking game?.....Take a shot every time Steve Reilly says, "uh".

@raycampbell162 8 ай бұрын

Hey, if I didn't pay my bills I'd be rich too.

@nolliagmar8372 6 жыл бұрын

i pay my bills on time haaaaahaaaaa lol

@printer1105 6 ай бұрын

He has a long reputation of not paying contractors all over New York. This has been known for a long time by many in New York and Jersey. I heard of him not paying back in the eighties so this aint new.

@DarylBuck 8 жыл бұрын

You can have Hundreds of millions of liens on a Property you have NO INTENTION OF Selling... The Scam Artist is gonn'a be Crusified in Public

@tomau3946 Ай бұрын

These are the people who should be featured in ads about Trump. They will tell the true story of the Presidential candidate.

@tygrahof9268 6 жыл бұрын

He is our Marie Antoinette saying, "Let them eat cake." Knows the people are too poor to sue him forever. Horrid human being.

@Stoneshakre 6 жыл бұрын

One of the sins - according to my old Catholic catechism - 'crying to heaven for vengeance' is Defrauding Workers of Their Wages. Dishwashers, barmen, waiters, builders. Trump's empire is built on such inhuman behaviour.

@MM-ep2cp 3 ай бұрын

And his family is learning to do the same.

@vaz-raf-3r677 8 жыл бұрын

make Donald Drumpf Again.

@philais 8 жыл бұрын

The hotel in Washinton DC is two years ahead of schedule and under budget and contractors are lined up for the opportunity to work with Trump Industries...Get a real job Steve!

@greggtidd4816 6 ай бұрын

Now that he is losing, people can finally get what they are owed

@burnettsalmon8534 3 жыл бұрын

Rich people know how to game the system that's why America is in so much debt the sad thing about it poor people in a America will be paying this debt for generations

@lupemerrit 3 ай бұрын

The only VOTER response to Trump should be “YOU’RE FIRED.”

@automateTec 8 жыл бұрын

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. (Proverbs 18:17).

@tabo01 5 ай бұрын

Thei ignorance of workers who thought this POS was on their side.

@user-jo3wu7qj1h 3 ай бұрын

The “art of the deal “ is to never pay your contractors!! Ha ha

@automateTec 8 жыл бұрын

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. (Proverbs 14:15)

@r.maxwell233 5 ай бұрын

I pay my bills on time? Just another lie...

@cortschumacher3030 3 ай бұрын

This is the person who people are going to be voting for to be the president someone who doesn't pay his bills

@kitkat43255 8 жыл бұрын

He sounds exactly like Kal Penn!

@user-ug9bd8sf5d 6 ай бұрын

His people could have been paid in the bankruptcy lawsuits he chose not to include them!

@kevingordon9192 5 ай бұрын

ALLEGED!! 🤣😂🤣 Not alleged. It’s a fact…

@Eri-Wi- 8 жыл бұрын

wow

@mustbeheard9834 3 жыл бұрын

Kind of a lousy reporter. It was as if he was too scared to ask a question. It wasn't just one dishwasher. It was servers, dishwashers, companies, etc. Why didn't he speak up and state the facts! Sheesh!!!

@janncoons7445 5 ай бұрын

This is the main point with these trumpies. I live through the debacles of this man through the 70s and 80s and 90s I read the newspapers and listen to the news of all the people he harmed and the bills he didn't pay and many other horror despicable things he has done. So it just proves to me how ignorant his supporters truly are to be so unaware of these facts and the cognitive dissonance is just appalling

@lennardcovarrubias5950 8 жыл бұрын

can't wait till nov.....if he thinks he Will get a large percentage of Latino vote....he is living in the land oz...

@davidprimeau3368 6 жыл бұрын

He and Trudeau have much in common.

@lorrainepellett1300 4 ай бұрын

its 2024 and he still has not paid the cities he owes over 1 million dollars to when he agreed to pay for the extra police and security at the rallies, he held in their cities....... so, no, he still doesn't pay his bills.

@MrReymoclif714 Ай бұрын

Burlington, Vermont? The take his jacket rally.

@dwightmorris1024 8 жыл бұрын

Allegations , Allegations, where is the proof ?

@rudyishoggin 8 жыл бұрын

in your ass

@daledavies2334 3 ай бұрын

Rick Reilly describes this in his book Commander in Cheat.

@MrMrcellardweller 8 жыл бұрын

who wears a hat with a suit

@grandwonder5858 8 жыл бұрын

Everything about the A-hole is fake --- including his hair and the teeth he lies through! He wears that retarded hat whenever he's outside to keep that fake hair from flying off his bald head!

@sizzla123 2 жыл бұрын

Remember, if you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail.

@459luker 6 жыл бұрын

9:15 This is classic trump. Completely obsessed with his image and how people perceive him, and doesn't give 2 shits about anyone else but himself. You can find stories of this kind of thing all throughout trumps history, its not just one or two disgruntled people making things up to make him look bad, this is who trump is and its disgusting.

@deloreswhite7864 4 ай бұрын

This man should be in jail.

@mopedwarehouse 2 ай бұрын

I personally know electricians and carpenters who worked on Donald Trump's casinos. They've told me that they intentionally cut corners and used cheaper materials than were specified. When Trump discovered these shortcomings Trump gave the option of making it right by redoing the work or by having final payments withheld. The problem is this reporter is getting information from the owners of the businesses who were scaming Trump , not from the guys that were doing the work who were fully aware of what was happening.

@learntotakeajoke3100 4 ай бұрын

7 years lated, did they get paid finally?

@stevenalbertwood9090 3 ай бұрын

How about the Family owned piano making company he stiffed and put out of business. Trump Companies had Dunn and Bradstreet ratings in the toilet. We never bid on any work for them because of it.

@estherv2805 8 жыл бұрын

MEXICAN CHEF by XENIA RUBINOS fits this segment PERFECTLY!!

@travismaxwell9115 Жыл бұрын

Pay my 💵💵💵 bills are you crazy I'm Donald Trump.

@ellenbenson7895 5 ай бұрын

This story makes me wonder even more why Trump supporters think he cares about them, or about our country. He stiffs the little guy whenever he gets the chance. it is about entitlement - he has been given so much he never had to work for - has no idea what the average worker's life is about, and doesn't care to know.

@1rayw 7 жыл бұрын

That last message will live long in the history of America and the ridicule he has suffered will never be forgotten!!!

@samdonelson8050 5 ай бұрын

Ya a company I worked for thought about bidding a job with trump but decided to not bid it because they had heard he didn't pay his bills.

@daleeaton1026 4 ай бұрын

His answer to people who he owes money too is sue me. Then years in court delayselay delay until they can’t afford to continue to pay lawyers and trump considers that a win for him. I’ve heard this shit about him for years. He will fuck over anyone and doesn’t care

@bluzcompany2293 3 жыл бұрын

So how many of you Trump supporters like working for someone who doesn't pay you for your work ,if that's ok with you then you are supporting the right person for you ...