Trump better be looking for a new home in Palm Beach because he's only allowed to be in residence for 21 days each year according to an agreement he signed with the town in 1993 in order to get permission to create a club and obtain tax relief for the property he couldn't afford. He was notified by the town when he changed his residency from New York to Florida in 2018 that Mar-a-Lago couldn't be his personal residence. He ignored it and the town has been lenient re his stays in guest quarters given his position as president & allowing a military helipad for security reasons. He's been notified that it will be removed post-presidency.
Once he's no longer president, the town is poised to sue him for his breach of the agreement and deny his tax relief. One neighbor has retained an attorney to file suit on their behalf as well w/others ready to follow. The town is willing to give him some time to find a home among the "many lovely estates for sale in Palm Beach that will meet his needs."
Does that mean Trump used a fake permanent address when he voted in Florida? Was Trump's own vote fraudulent?
I've read several articles and seen interviews on this the last several weeks. He is persona non grata and has earned that distinction honestly - one of the few things where Trump & honesty can be coupled. I hope the aforementioned stands up. No doubt Trump will put up a fight.
I also heard that Jared and Ivanka are not wanted at some fancy country club in Florida where they have purchased land to build their shanty. It sound like they will be blackballed if they submit a membership application.
The agreement is quite clear w/no room for any exceptions & it also falls under the jurisdiction of the historic preservation entity. He is loathed by some of the Palm Beach residents & most of them have far money money that he does. I don't know who will want to continue to be members of his club so the club may not survive in which case it can be sold as an entire parcel (at one time Trump wanted to sell off part to build condos). I also think he's not only going to be calling on his very rich buddies for help w/legal bills but to buy him a house, too. There's no good way for him to spin this - the guy, just like in Trump Tower, fed his ego by walking from his private quarters to adoring members. I don't think sitting alone w/Melania & Barron on some protected estate is his style.
Ivanka & Jared might not be admitted to the Indian Creek Country Club, but they can hang w/Jared's brother & sister-in-law model Karlie Kloss who live there. I somehow don't see this as a great stepping stone to Ivanka's plan to challenge Marco Rubio's senate seat.
I really do wonder how the Trumps' votes weren't fraudulent if they knew when they cast them that they didn't have a permanent residence in FL. Yet Trump bellowed about "temporary" residents of GA's votes being fraudulent. Of course, logic has never been a strong point for Trump...
It all comes crashing down like a house of marked cards!
2112 was posting some things about his address/residence issue and potential of vote not counting.
I don't really know the process, not sure anyone does and that leads to some uncertainty. When you vote in person at the polling location if there is some discrepancy about who you are, where you are legally supposed to vote and where you aren't, or if a poll watcher objects to you voting on a regular ballot, you vote provisional and then at a later time back at the board of elections I assume, they verify or throw-out the provisional ballots. When you vote by mail...you never really know if your vote is going to be counted or thrown-out. I mean, do they send you a letter stating your vote wasn't counted for any certain reason. Atleast when you are voting in person, you know, that if they are making you vote provisional, you can either do that and know that the vote may or may not get counted...or, you can leave that voting location, go down to the board of elections or correct whatever reason they were making you vote provisional in the first place (like improper location, suspicious ID, etc).
So me saying all of that, Trump voted Florida absentee right? Maybe his vote did get thrown out. How would anyone ever know?
So me saying all of that, Trump voted Florida absentee right? Maybe his vote did get thrown out. How would anyone ever know?
Having worked as a legal monitor for every presidential election except this one for the last 25 years, the main concern at the precinct is that the voter registration match the voter. If there are questions (e.g., a guy w/a HI driver's license is trying to vote in AK), the legal monitor of each party (there's 1 from each) make a decision whether he can vote.
In the FL primaries, Trump voted by mail handing his ballot to a third party to then send to election officials - a process known as ballot harvesting which Trump has railed against. There's definitely a possibility that his vote could never make it to the appropriate election officials. Trump had opposed all mail-in votes as ripe for fraud; this went even further in that he personally didn't mail it.
For the 11/3 election, Trump voted early at his precinct in person. He probably listed Mar-a-Lago as his permanent address even though it legally can't be his address. The town gave him latitude while he was president and that could've extended to the use of that "southern White House" address so his voter registration wouldn't have been challenged at the time.
No, we vote anonymously. Any challenge to the vote occurs at the precinct & we know then. Otherwise, we never know if our vote is valid or not.
Down and Out in Palm Beach: "Mommy, I saw a big fat man with orange hair looking under the park bench for votes!"
