FBI Raids Former President Donald Trumps Home

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• Inside Peter Andre's huge garden with bar at multi-million pound mansion
• Just 30% of voters say Biden should run for reelection: poll
• Discrimination lawsuit
• John Travolta can't offload $5M mansion Kirstie Alley first showed him
• History
• Inside Ronnie O'Sullivan's canal boat home including luxury dining room
• FBI's raid on Trump's Florida home draws GOP backlash, demands for explanation

The name Mar-a-Lago means “Sea to Lake” and refers to the width of the property, spanning the entire width of Palm Beach from the Atlantic Ocean on the East and the Intercoastal Waterway on the west. Palm Beach, described as Billionaire’s Row, has also been host to the likes of John F. Kennedy, who visited his own family’s property on the island during the winter months. Trump is expected to depart the White House for a final time at 8 a.m.

Trump ended up getting the property for the relative bargain price of $5 million in 1985, and paid an additional $3 million for Post's antiques and furniture. Architects Marion Sims Wyeth and Joseph Urban designed the estate, which sits on 20 acres that border the Atlantic Ocean on one side and Florida's Intracoastal Waterway on the other. (Wyeth also designed the Florida governor's mansion in Tallahassee). Every item on this page was chosen by a townandcountrymag editor.

Inside Peter Andre's huge garden with bar at multi-million pound mansion

I can't believe any people fool for the lies and rhetoric of the arch confidence trickster Donald Trump. Now the truth is about the be revealed about his traitorous activities and his deal with Putin.... Not just anyone can stay at Mar-a-Lago; you have to be a member. There’s an initial $200,000 fee, plus about $20,000 in annual dues and taxes. The resort closes for hurricane season each year, as Florida’s summers are both hot and humid, as well as at heightened risk for tropical storms and hurricanes. It cost $7 million dollars, an estimated $100 million in 2020 figures.

Three visitors, including a press secretary to Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, had tested positive for the coronavirus after visiting the club for an event hosted by the President Trump. In 2015, he sued Palm Beach County again for what he called "deliberate and malicious" moves to direct departing flights from Palm Beach International Airport over Mar-a-Lago. The suit was dropped after the election, obviously, since now there is a Secret Service-mandated no-fly zone over Mar-a-Lago when Trump is in residence. In December 2020, neighbors of Mar-a-Lago delivered a demand letter to the town of Palm Beach, stating that the town should notify Trump that he cannot use the estate as his residence. Trump argues that he can live at Mar-a-Lago permanently as a bona fide employee.

Just 30% of voters say Biden should run for reelection: poll

That possibility became reality in January, after archives officials retrieved boxes that Mr. Trump had gone through over several days last December. The officials opened the boxes and discovered a number of classified documents. As one of Trump's more under-the-radar residences, Seven Springs has 60 rooms—15 of which are bedrooms—in addition to a bowling alley and three pools. He reportedly paid $7.5 million for the property in 1996 and planned to turn it into a golf course but it has remained a private house to this day . In September 2019, Mar-a-Lago became the primary residence for Donald and Melania Trump, who previously held primary residence in New York City.

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley spent their honeymoon at the resort as well. Trump holds private quarters on the property in a separate, closed-off area. It has been labeled the second-largest mansion in the state of Florida. The longtime New Yorker will now make Palm Beach his permanent home as his presidency comes to an end.

Discrimination lawsuit

Elsewhere in the state, Trump owns two homes in Sterling, Virginia (close to the Trump National Washington D.C. golf club) that are worth $1.5 million. Moving into the White House in 2017 granted him access to Camp David as a country retreat, but Trump already had an array of impressive properties at his disposal. And judging by all the trips he's taken to them as president—costing taxpayers millions in the process—he clearly prefers his own places to a government-issued one. According to an ongoing analysis by NBC News, President Donald Trump has now spent more than a year's worth of days at a Trump property since taking office. This amounts to nearly a third of his 3.5-year-long presidency.

White House papers are federal property and must be handed over to the National Archives when a president leaves office. Trump at the time rejected reports that he had mishandled official records as “fake news”. According to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, Trump was in Trump Tower in New York City at the time of Monday’s reported raid. The dramatic escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of Trump comes as he prepares for a possible third presidential run in 2024. US media reports that the search is related to documents which the president may have taken to Mar-a-Lago on leaving the White House. The search was reportedly connected to an investigation into Trump’s handling of official papers.

Ex-US President Donald Trump has said his Florida home was “raided” by the FBI, and that agents broke open a safe. Late on Monday, Axios posted photos that were said to be taken from the Trump White House and from a trip overseas. The photos showed toilets containing scraps of torn-up documents with Trump's handwriting on them. Agents raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday night. As expected, the raid drew backlash from Trump, who criticized the operation as politically motivated. On Monday night, the former president accused Democrats of “weaponization” of the justice system to keep him from running for president in 2024.

A Justice Department spokesman also did not return a phone message seeking comment Friday afternoon. The Justice Department launched an early-stage investigation into Trump's removal of records to the Florida estate, a source familiar with the matter said in April. After the warning from the Justice Department, a debate ensued among Mr. Trump’s lawyers about whether to bring in an independent firm to conduct a search. The Post report also stated that Mr Trump’s legal team took this latest step in hopes of avoiding another FBI search of his residences.

Part of the deal forbids any of the club members from spending more than 21 days a year in the club's guest suites or staying there longer than seven consecutive days. Trump allegedly signed a "use agreement" in 1993 after he converted the private residence into a social club. At the time, the latter party reportedly initiated legal action to prevent them from moving back. After her death, the estate was ultimately given to the Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation by the federal government. On Monday 8th August, the FBI is said to have entered Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and seized documents relating to an inquiry into missing White House records. Trump bought the property in 1985 from cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.

DeSantis' success may depend on having a one-on-one contest with Trump, Paleologos cautioned. "Add in a number of other Republican presidential candidates who would divide the anti-Trump vote and you have a recipe for a repeat of the 2016 Republican caucuses and primaries," he said, "when Trump outlasted the rest of the divided field." South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, another staunch Trump supporter, called the raid "an unprecedented political weaponization of the Justice Department" -- and others even called for the FBI to be defunded. For nearly a year, Trump delayed giving the documents to the Archives.