Trump s attorney John B. Marion said the former president is responsible for overseeing the property and its financial records, strategizing ways to improve the club, and evaluating employee performance, the Daily News reported.
Marion, at a February hearing over the former president s residence, called Trump the mayor of the town of Mar-a-Lago, Insider s Jacob Shamsian previously reported. This guy, he wanders the property like the mayor of the town of Mar-a-Lago, Marion said of Trump. He s ever-present, and he loves it there, and he loves the people that he sees there.
Randolph s remarks come months after a town council session in which officials heard the residents argue that Trump should not legally be allowed to live there because it would violate the 1993 agreement.
Town attorney s final word: Trump can live at Mar-a-Lago as a bona fide employee
Some of the former president s neighbors had hoped to block him from living at Mar-a-Lago, citing a 1993 declaration of use agreement he signed with the town.
Palm Beach Daily News
When former President Donald Trump heads to his New Jersey golf club for the summer, he will leave his Palm Beach home with the legal right to live there.
Turning aside arguments from neighbors who claim that Trump is not permitted to live at Mar-a-Lago based on a Declaration of Use agreement he signed with the town in 1993, Palm Beach Town Attorney John Randolph concluded that the agreement doesn t specifically prohibit the ex-president from residing at the club, Town Manager Kirk Blouin told the Daily News this week.
Can Trump live in Mar-a-Lago? Palm Beach leans yes
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Former President Donald J. Trump s Mar-a-Lago resort was the last topic of debate at a virtual Palm Beach Town Council meeting. Photo / Getty Images
Former President Donald J. Trump s Mar-a-Lago resort was the last topic of debate at a virtual Palm Beach Town Council meeting. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: Patricia Mazzei
The Palm Beach Town Council did not take a formal vote but was advised that former President Donald J. Trump should be considered a Mar-a-Lago employee. The relationship between former President Donald Trump and his
As Trump’s impeachment trial kicked off, Palm Beach argued about whether to evict him from Mar-a-Lago Antonia Noori Farzan
Replay Video UP NEXT On Tuesday, a somber group of elected lawmakers convened to debate a question that would have high stakes for former president Donald Trump. At issue was whether Trump had flagrantly violated commitments he’d once pledged to uphold, and if he should be held accountable for comments that his lawyers are now seeking to downplay. The setting? A virtual meeting of the Palm Beach, Fla., town council. While many Americans including Trump himself were following the impeachment proceedings in the U.S. Senate, elected officials in the affluent island community were preoccupied by a different argument about the former president. After discussing an inlet sand transfer and the purchase of a municipal generator, they turned their attention to whether Trump should be allowed to continue living at Mar-a-Lago, the pri