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Donald Trump has a few more weeks to live in the White House, and on January 20 he will return to his residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago. The future former president of the United States might have a problem, but neighbors across the street from Palm Beach told him they no longer want to be his neighbors, writes The Washington Post.
Trump’s neighbors complain that the current US president is disruptive and not interested in following the most basic rules of the community. They say that traffic is constantly blocked by Trump’s frequent visits to the club to play golf, accompanied by the official column and the Secret Service, which is just one of the reasons.
The message was sent by a request made Tuesday to the Palm Beach administration but also to the Secret Service by the DeMoss family who live in front of Mar-a-Lago and who own an international foundation. Other homeowners near Mar-a-Lago have joined the initiative.
In this application, the city is notified that Trump can no longer use the Mar-a-Lago villa as a residence because he signed an agreement in the early 1990s to convert his residence property into a private club. This legal maneuver could eventually force the Palm Beach administration to publicly decide whether Trump can still use Mar-a-Lago as his home after January 20, when he will no longer be president of the United States.
The situation could be even more problematic for Trump if the initiative is successful, not only because he would be the first president to have to defend himself in court to live somewhere after the presidency, but also because he has already moved to Florida. , giving up New York, where he lived before winning the election.
“There is no legal justification for Trump to use this property as a residence and as a private golf club. He plays a hand without possibility. He will not be able to intimidate or deceive us,” said Glenn Zeitz, owner of Palm Beach, a neighbor of Trump who joined The initiative.
What legal justification do Trump’s neighbors have for demanding his removal?
The controversy originated in 1993. Then Donald Trump, who ran out of money, decided that it was too difficult for him to maintain Mar-a-Lago and signed the agreement by which he turned it into a private club. Under the agreement, club members cannot spend more than 21 days a year at the club or more than 7 consecutive days. Before the agreement was signed, a legal representative of Trump assured the local city council in a public conference that Trump will not live in Mar-a-Lago.
At the time, city officials were suspicious of Trump’s intentions, in the context of a previous legal dispute. The suspicions turned out to be well founded because Trump constantly tried to change the terms of the agreement: In 2018 he asked the local council to remove a provision that prohibited him from building a pier at the club, arguing that Secret Service agents would need such an agreement. structure to ensure its protection.
He then returned and said that the pier was for the private use of the president and the first lady, but after documents showing the 1993 agreement came to light, Trump withdrew the request.
Trump has traveled to Mar-a-Lago 30 times during his presidency and has spent at least 130 days there.
Publisher: Adrian Dumitru
