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MAR-A-LAGO: President Donald Trump has lived here since he moved out of the White House. Photo: JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA NTB
Donald Trump hopes to stay at his private Mar-a-Lago club. Now he has an important supporter on the team.
The Washington Post reports.
In November 2019, Trump announced a move from New York to Palm Beach, Florida. He justified it all by saying that he felt badly treated by local politicians in both the city and New York state.
Few have been treated worse. I hate having to make this decision, but in the end it is best for all parties, he said just over 14 months ago.
Until January 20 he lived in the White House, as president of the United States, but after losing the elections in favor of Joe Biden, he now moved to Palm Beach.
But it is certainly not that simple.
Neighbors of Trump’s private club, Mar-a-Lago, did not want Trump to move there. In December, they sent a letter to the local authorities.
The letter claims that Trump lost his legal right to live in Mar-a-Lago after an agreement signed in the early 1990s when he converted the ownership of a residence into a private club.
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True, Trump now appears to have received local support from the attorney who has considered the case for the Palm Beach City Council, according to a note to which the Washington Post has had access.
In the memo, attorney John C. Randolph recommends that the city let Trump stay at his private club. He believes that the former president should be allowed to use the club as his residence, even though Trump in 1993 promised the city council that he would not use the club for anything other than club activities.
The 18-year agreement states that no guest can stay at the club more than 21 days a year.
FORMER PRESIDENT: Donald Trump. Photo: Carlos Barria / REUTERS / NTB
The city attorney believes that the agreement does not matter and claims that the agreement to convert the property into a private club does not contain anything that specifically prohibits someone from living there.
The dispute over the use of Mar-a-Lago dates back to the early 1990s, when Trump lived there, writes the Washington Post. The cost of maintenance increased and Trump wanted to divide the parcel into more than a dozen properties.
The city council didn’t want that, prompting Trump to sue. Eventually, the parties reached an agreement, in which Trump renounced the rights to develop Mar-a-Lago or use it for “any purpose other than the use of clubs,” the newspaper writes.
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Trump’s attorney, John B. Marion, doesn’t think anything Trump said prior to the signing of the agreement in 1993 is relevant today. He and City Attorney Randolph also believe that since Trump owns Mar-a-Lago LLC, which in turn owns the club, he is included in the exception that employees can stay in private clubs in Palm. Beach.
Marion also points out that Trump does not use the guest rooms, but rather the presidential suite at the club.
The case may be examined in city council next week, the same day the Supreme Court case against Trump begins in Washington DC, the newspaper writes.
