“Don’t come to Mar-a-Lago after the White House”

Published on: 12/16/2020 3:00 PM

After more than 81 million Americans kicked him out of the White House with his vote now Donald Trump is also fighting his Palm Beach neighbors, who want him out of their residence in Mar-a-Lago. It is precisely in the Florida resort, defined in the last four years as his “Winter White House”, where the outgoing president would like to move, after leaving Washington.

But in one letter delivered to the city of Palm Beach and the Secret Service, the lawyer representing the DeMoss family, Trump’s ‘neighbor’, argues that the outgoing president has lost the legal right to reside in Mar-a-Lago. The reason would be an agreement that was signed in the early 1990s, when Trump converted the property of his private residence into a golf club. The letter could force local authorities to decide whether, after Joe Biden’s oath date of January 20, Trump can establish residency at the Florida resort.

The mishap, writes the Washington Post that had access to the letter, runs the risk of giving life to a scenario never seen in recent history, in which a former president would be forced to defend his right to reside in a place of his choice in court. Also because, during his years in the White House, Trump has already moved his legal residence from Manhattan to Mar-a-Lago and in Florida he has also registered as a voter.

The letter from the De Mosses’ lawyer, who runs an international missionary foundation, calls on local authorities to “avoid an embarrassing situation” if Trump moves to his Florida resort and is later ordered by a court. of Justice. move.

In recent years, Trump’s neighbors have repeatedly complained about the inconvenience caused by the president’s frequent presence in Mar-a-Lago., accompanied by caravans, checkpoints, police deployments, helicopters. Even the pole on which the American flag is hoisted in his villa, which would exceed the allowed height limits, was contested against him.

At the moment, neither the White House, nor Trump’s legal representative in Florida, nor the authorities of the city of Palm Beach have commented. But besides De Moss there is another neighbor on the warpath. This is Glenn Zeitz, who has stood up to Trump in the past, accusing him of turning his Florida property into an Atlantic City casino. “He has no chance. He will not intimidate us or make fun of us, we will be there”, is his combative statement. The war, it seems, has just begun.