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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Palm Beach Town Council spent close to seven hours Tuesday considering issues important to the wealthy island community: the availability of the coronavirus vaccine.
The Palm Beach Town Council is about to consider whether former President Donald Trump can live at his Mar-a-Lago club.
The Palm Beach Town Council is deciding on whether former President Donald Trump can continue living at Mar-a-Lago.
Lawyer said in 1993 Trump would be prohibited from living there if town allowed him to convert property from a residence to a club
View the full letter from the town's attorney below: Trump purchased Mar-a-Lago for $10 million in 1985 from the estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the owner of General Foods. The 126-room mansion had deteriorated after her death in 1973, when she left it to the U.S. government as a possible presidential vacation home. The government gave it back in 1981. After Trump bought it, he spent millions upgrading the property while living there part-time. By the early 1990s, however, Trump was in financial distress. Real estate prices dropped and several of his businesses flopped, including a New ...