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Mar-a-Lago, the crown jewel of President Donald Trumps real estate empire, has been his refuge and sanctuary throughout his time in office.
Unlike in Washington, where the president is mostly cloistered inside the White House and interacts with a constant stream of aides and lawmakers, he gets to rub elbows and hobnob with his friends and other glitterati at his Palm Beach estate showing off a real estate beauty to other elites.
Now it could take a place in history as an international transfer point for a deadly virus spreading across the globe.
At least three people who visited Mar-a-Lago in the past 10 days have tested positive for the deadly virus, and were spotted in photographs with the president and other club members. A top Brazilian official, Ambassador to the U.S. Nestor Forster, who was seated with the president at a Saturday night dinner at the club, tested positive for COVID-19. So did Fabio Wajngarten, the press secretary to President Jair Bolsonaro who was spotted standing next to Trump in an Instagram post. An email to Trump supporters who attended a fundraiser at the club last Sunday suggests there was now also a mysterious third person who was at the club last weekend with the virus.
The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, came down with flu-like symptoms on Friday and her doctor determined a test for coronavirus was necessary, a spokesman said.
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/03/15/trumps-florida-sanctuary-coronavirus-130787
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)has been a petri dish for a communicable disease.
3Hotdogs
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Although it burns and itches,
It will kill the sons-a-bitches,
Credit, either Belle Barth or Rusty Warren (Knockers Up, Girls)
Takket
(21,616 posts)this is no surprise.
manhattan123
(302 posts)diva77
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Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)on a regular basis. Occasionally there are photos of them together at dinner, events.
I can't wait to hear the news!