Ahhhh! So sad!
Florida is supposed to bail out a private club?
Don't doubt it!
"...If you want a particularly gaudy glimpse of how nothing has changed at the top in this time of crisis, take a look at Trump’s (tax) haven of Palm Beach. It’s there, you may recall, that in 2008 the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was given merely a tap on the wrist for his crimes, in a sweetheart deal negotiated by those fine defense attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr and approved by a federal prosecutor, Alex Acosta, who would later serve as Trump’s secretary of Labor. Cut to Palm Beach, 2020, and you’ll find that the hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin was allowed to import employees from New York and open a trading floor at the local Four Seasons hotel even at a time when the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was threatening to target New Yorkers entering the state and Palm Beach County was shutting down all the neighboring hotels. According to the Miami Herald, two Palm Beach police cars were even posted outside as guards. Of course this absolutely had nothing to do with the fact Griffin was the biggest PAC contributor (to the tune of $5.75 million) to DeSantis’s 2018 election campaign — any more than, say, the John Roberts court’s Wisconsin ruling was in any way intended to disenfranchise the most vulnerable voters in Milwaukee...."
https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/62343-john-robertss-wisconsin-shame
Ain't that the pits?
Donald Trump is one of the cheapest millionaires in the history of millionaires. From shortchanging his employees to flat out stiffing the contractor’s bill multiple times, leading to thousands of lawsuits, Trump is a man who will do anything to keep a buck.
That includes taking full advantage of the coronavirus relief funds being doled out to states and counties around the nation.
That’s right..
The Trump Organization just asked Palm Beach County in Florida to help pay the $88,338 rent for Trump’s local golf resort.
The Palm Beach Post reports:“Like other Palm Beach County businesses, the president’s golf club has been forced to close as the pandemic plays out. But there is that one major difference: The club is owned by the President of the United States, the commander-in-chief who made the call of when the country shut down and who will make the call on when America opens up for business again.”
The newspaper was able to get ahold of an email written by the finance director at both Mar-a-Lago and Trump International Golf Club, Ed Raymundo, who wrote:
“This mandate has resulted in the cancellation of events and forced the Club to close many of it’s (cq) amenities leaving limited services available to our members.
In addition, with many New York based members, the Governor’s most recent order requiring individuals traveling from the tri-state area to self-quarantine further hampers our operation. Your direction in this is greatly appreciated.”
These are the two clubs Trump has spent most of his time as president at, but make no mistake, the president of the United States, a millionaire, does not need help paying the rent on his posh resort.
The newspaper reported:
“Of the three golf clubs Trump owns in South Florida, including Trump National Doral Florida and, Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, the golf club in West Palm Beach, is by far his most frequented. Just a few miles from Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private club in Palm Beach, Trump has spent 83 of the 127 days he has visted Mar-a-Lago at Trump International.Trump hosts his annual Super Bowl party at the club and has played there with golf legends, political allies and White House aides.”
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