Two contractors allege getting stiffed for work on Trump's D.C. hotel

[highplainsdem]

Source: WaPo

Their employees installed plumbing, air conditioning, baseboards and crown molding in Donald Trump’s $212 million luxury D.C. hotel.

Afterward, they say, they were stiffed.

Two Washington-area small businesses have filed liens on the Trump International Hotel, saying they have not been compensated for their work completing the 263-room project the president-elect routinely heralds as having finished under budget and ahead of schedule.

One firm, Joseph J. Magnolia Inc., is a private, family-owned plumbing firm with offices in Northeast D.C. and suburban Maryland that claims it is out $2.98 million. According to a mechanic’s lien the company filed four days before Christmas, Magnolia worked on the Trump hotel for more than two years, from September of 2014 to December of 2016.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2017/01/05/two-contractors-allege-getting-stiffed-for-work-on-trumps-d-c-hotel/

[Jacob Boehme]

1. Just wait until he stiffs our entire country! n/t

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Another example of the brilliant business acumen of the Twitler

[ailsagirl]

29. Scum-- what a great example he sets for our kids

[louis-t]

3. "under budget" because he won't pay contractors.

What a slime ball.

[PatSeg]

6. Yep!

That is the Trump business model.

[Historic NY]

4. LOL!! and he voted for Trump......

[louis-t]

9. OMG, I imagine he was very impressed with himself

the entire time he was slaving away, for free, for his hero. I bet he went to the bar every weekend and bragged to his buddies about how drumpf was his buddy, "Don said this to me, Don said that to me", blah, blah, blah...

[Ohioblue22]

12. well you lay with dogs... didnt he know trump cheats everyone

[bettyellen]

13. Oh please. Contractors often have to take the work they can get

[Hortensis]

5. LOL. Swindling WHILE he runs for president.

If we're going to elect a personal with a serious mental disorder to the presidency, I at least appreciate Trump's being so outrageously, profoundly disordered. No amateurish wondering if it could be true, just a constant parade of amazing evidences.

Btw, of course, the WaPo publishing means they have already investigated enough to find these claims credible.

Electoral College is scheduled report its counts to congress tomorrow, btw.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Looking more and more like,

Con Job has to be looking over his shoulder.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Familiar with Magnolia plumbing.

Trump up to his old tricks.

[Achilleaze]

10. Comrade Casino is the ultimate embodiment of Republican "Family Values"

And the Republican role model for generations of children to come.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. I'm sure, when the news came out about how Trump stiffs contractors, they were shitting bricks.

[abbeyco]

14. File a mechanic's lien against the property.

That would happen in any other circumstance with a construction project where contractors and suppliers didn't get paid. That kind of thing gets noticed and attended to rather quickly.

[Hekate]

23. They did. Trump has always counted on his lawyers fighting back until the little guy keels over....

...one way or another.

[kimbutgar]

15. Couldn't happen to a better thump supporter

I hope he feels the regret of his vote for the grifter. If he did his research he would have found out that thump is a con man with a history of stifffing contractors.

[rurallib]

16. So the guy is broke, can't pay his bills, up to his eyeballs in credit

looks like a situation some folks (not saying who) could exploit..........

[lark]

17. Sue him and do it NOW!

I want to see tons of people taking action against this orange traitorous slug.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. What I find most frightening about Trump's history of not paying

contractors and employees, is that he sees that as a perfectly normal and acceptable way to do business. He's probably going to carry that over into how he expects to run this country. Stiffing Medicare and Social Security payments, not bothering to pay interest on government bonds, then expecting to renegotiate those things. He hasn't a clue that running a business is completely different from running a country, and we are the ones who will be hurt the most by what he's going to do in the next four, maybe eight years.

[dembotoz]

42. yes you nailed it

[Bob Loblaw]

19. Maybe they aren't getting paid

but just look at all the free publicity they're getting.

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. That's what he told the caterer at

his wedding to Marla when he didn't pay her.

[DLevine]

20. Even after getting stiffed, Magnolia still supports Trump.

From the article: Magnolia chalked up Trump’s missed payments to the president-elect being focused on the country. “I voted for the man and he seems to be surrounding himself as he has in the past with some pretty smart people and I wish him the best,” he said.

You can't fix stupid.

[atreides1]

28. Talk about stupid!

I wonder if his family owned business can survive a $2.9 million dollar deficit?

Trump has some pretty smart lawyers, who will keep this fool in court, until his family owned business goes down the crapper!

In the end Mr. Magnolia will end up settling for less then half of what he's owed, and his lawyers will take that!

[DLevine]

31. This is the kind of stupid we are dealing with in this country,

people who happily vote for those trying to destroy them.

[world wide wally]

21. I think that would be the definition of "stupid asshole"

Stupid asshole: example; one who votes for the person who cheats him out of his pay.

[Plucketeer]

22. More specifically...

a Stupid Asshole would be one that never gives a shit!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

24. He always said we make too much money. So Sue him. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

26. Only two?

That would be an all-time low.

[greymattermom]

27. Trump has depended on the contractors not being able to afford lawyers

but I'll bet there will be some lawyers who would also be interested in the publicity. This game may not work this time.

[Vinca]

30. Here you go Trump voters. Here's the guy you think is going to get you a job.

Did he mention it's an unpaid job???

[Else You Are Mad]

32. If you work for Trump...

And don't get paid up front and in cash before the job, it is your own fault. Trump is famous for not paying contractors and workers.

[turbinetree]

33. I think that everyone should read David Cay Johnston's book at this con man

they just don't learn or just don't believe it. He is serial criminal, since he is leasing this building from the taxpayers that own it, what are we going to do about this, take that f***ing name off the building, this megalomaniac is a f***ing national disgrace. Whatever he touches he scams and cons everything----------------amazing

[not fooled]

40. They don't want to know

They just want to be lazy citizens who surrender their brains to an authority figure that they think will "fix things".

[turbinetree]

41. This segment from last night with Ari Melber when he was co-hosting

for O'Donnell says everything and how this country should be worried

[TeamPooka]

34. Standard business operating procedures for all Trump's continue. nt

[herding cats]

35. This guy voted for Trump and still supports him as president!

Hey, at least he's loyal. Dumb as a box of rocks, but loyal.

[riversedge]

36. Hope they get their money. Shame on Trump

[ProfessorPlum]

37. How were these morons so stupid as to do work for Trump in 2014?

There were decades of stories of him stiffing and screwing his contractors at that point.

These idiots deserve it. christ, do some fucking research. boning over people who work for him is Trump's only consistent MO.

[tenaciousdem]

38. The lien never goes away

should he ever try to sell the place, he'll have to settle the liens before it can be sold.

[ProfessorPlum]

39. Let's hope he suffers at least _some_ consequence from this evil action

what an asshole.