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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSecret Service already organizing transfers to Florida for post-presidential
security detail.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/secret-members-asked-protecting-soon-205816566.html
"As states begin to certify election results that seal a victory for President-elect Joe Biden, even though Donald Trump hasn't conceded there is one clear sign his post-presidency life is taking shape: Secret Service agents in the president's detail are being asked whether they're interested in transferring to Palm Beach, Florida, sources have told ABC News.
The Secret Service's Miami field office also has begun looking at physical reinforcements to Mar-a-Largo, the president's club to which he refers as "the winter White House," the sources added. These moves are considered unofficial as Trump has yet to concede to Biden.
Trump, a longtime New Yorker born in the borough of Queens, changed his residency to Florida last year and voted there in late October.
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Renovations to living quarters expected to be occupied by Trump and first lady Melania Trump are underway, ahead of when they'll be living there full time after the Jan. 20 inauguration, sources familiar with the planning told ABC News."....(more)
Stinky The Clown
(67,673 posts)No more closed street around that gauche, garish structure sitting on the stolen plot where Bonwit Teller once stood in its Art Deco glory.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)Mar-a-lago and his other resort properties post-presidency ad infinitum.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)It was part of his agreement with Palm Beach County when he turned it into a club. I would think that means he cannot charge for use of the rooms by the Secret Service.
I am sure that this will go to court ubt since only shitty lawyers will work for Trump, I am sure he will lose. Then he personally will be stuck with all the costs of maintaining the building, paying the taxes, etc. Maybe in a few years we'll see the building being sold for unpaid taxes!
Stinky The Clown
(67,673 posts). . . . the end of their shift.
Also, the first malingerers all lose protection. With luck, after his Covid vacation, Junior will have no protection from a pissed off moose mama bent on taking away his guns.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)business travel of the 4 adult kids, their respective spouses and/or concubines, and the 10 grandkids.
grumpyduck
(6,198 posts)Yeah, like prison cell bars and security perimeters. They should turn it into the Mar-a-Lago supermax.
C_U_L8R
(44,891 posts)Trumps never miss an opportunity to take all the money off the table.
crickets
(25,896 posts)LonePirate
(13,386 posts)Hes not likely to be globetrotting and will seldom leave the safe confines of his resorts. All things considered, it will be an easy job for them given the hell he has put them through the past few years.
moonscape
(4,664 posts)Jirel
(1,991 posts)For the millionth time, Dump conceding is unnecessary. Dump lost. States have certified/are certifying. The transition is on. WTF is wrong with reporters that they still seem to give a rat's butt about "concession?"
Cha
(295,899 posts)MAGGOTS OUTTA OUR WH !
hunter
(38,264 posts)Endless days watching Trump cheat on the golf course, endless days listening to him tell increasingly bizarre tales to Eastern European escorts who have literally seen and heard it all from hundreds of braggarts just like him.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)Who in their right mind would want to be around that family for any length of time?
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)And that it could only be occupied a limited amount of time.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)While there are "living quarters" the contract with Palm Beach County restricts residency to only a few days at a time a few times a year for anyone involved in the club. If he lives there full time, the contract is null and void and it HAS to revert to single family residential.
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
May 8, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Digging into the catacombs of local records to build an argument against the dock, a small group of loosely aligned preservationists, disgruntled neighbors and attorneys have unearthed documents that they assert call into question the legality of Trumps much-publicized decision late last year to change his official domicile from Manhattan to Mar-a-Lago and to register to vote in Florida using the clubs address. According to those documents, and additional materials obtained by The Washington Post, Trump agreed in writing years ago to change the use of the Mar-a-Lago property from a single-family residence to a private club owned by a corporation he controls.
The distinction is significant. The property is taxed as a private club not as a residence, according to Palm Beach County property appraiser records. Trumps own attorney assured local officials in Palm Beach before they voted to approve the club in 1993 that he would not live there. Mar-a-Lagos website says only that Trump maintains private quarters at the club.
Its one or the other its a club or its your home, Reginald Stambaugh, an attorney who represents a neighbor opposed to Trumps dock plan, said in a recent interview. You cant have it both ways.
If Stambaugh and his client have their way and persuade Palm Beach to stand firm on its long-standing agreement, Trump will be forced to make a choice, he said: Stop operating Mar-a-Lago as a club and make it a single-family home again or change his official domicile to someplace else.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-made-florida-his-official-residence-he-may-have-also-made-a-legal-mess/2020/05/07/17d53fb2-849c-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html
Agreement with Palm Beach County: https://www.mypalmbeachclerk.com/records/official-records/official-records-search
Search for Record Book 7933 Page 22 - the agreement is 20 pages long.