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Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2021 4:56:30 GMT
Former President Donald Trump will travel to New York City as soon as Sunday — his first visit to the Big Apple since leaving the White House in January, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The NYPD last month began removing some of the barriers in front of Trump Tower, where the president stays while in Manhattan, and reopened East 57th Street near it. The security measures were put in place four years ago when Trump entered the White House. Trump, who was born in Queens and became a real-estate developer in Manhattan, changed his residency to Mar-a-Lago, his exclusive resort in Florida, in October 2019. “I hereby declare that my above-described residence and abode in the State of Florida constitutes my predominant and principal home, and I intend to continue it permanently as such,” he said in a document requesting the residency change.
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2021 0:41:14 GMT
Protests erupted outside Trump Tower demanding the ex-president’s arrest after he returned to New York for the first time since leaving office.
Anti-Trump protesters gathered outside his Manhattan skyscraper after he jetted into the city without wife Melania from Florida on Sunday.
Mr Trump is expected to stay in the city until Tuesday, although it is not known the reason for his visit.
The crowd outside the Fifth Avenue building where Mr Trump has a penthouse apartment, carried signs that read “Arrest Trump”, “Indict Trump”, and “Florida Man Go Home.”
Since leaving the White House on 20 January Mr Trump has been staying at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, but he lived in the 58-floor Trump Tower until he was sworn in as president in 2017.
He was accompanied by secret service agents and NYPD officers as he arrived back in the city in a motorcade at 9pm on Sunday.
His trip comes as the Manhattan district attorney’s office has stepped up its criminal investigation into Mr Trump and the financial dealings at his company.
Former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who is known for investigating organised crime cases, has been brought in by district attorney Cyrus Vance to look at the Trump Organization, according to reports.
The investigation is focused on possible bank-related and tax fraud, and the Supreme Court has allowed Mr Vance access to the ex-president’s tax returns, which he fought to keep away from prosecutors.
The tower, which brandishes the former president’s name in gold writing, attracted protests throughout the four years of Mr Trump’s time at the White House.
That included a “Black Lives Matter” mural that was painted on the street outside Trump Tower in July 2020, as New York City authorities criticised Mr Trump’s heavy-handed response to anti-racism protests across the US.
Mr Trump’s return to New York comes a week after he gave his first major speech since leaving office, at the CPAC event in Orlando, Florida.
And it also comes just days after it was reported that both Mr Trump and Melania Trump had received the Covid-19 vaccination in January, but had chosen to remain silent on doing so.
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Post by Admin on Mar 20, 2021 6:11:37 GMT
Former President Trump's personal Boeing 757 is sitting unused at an Orange County, New York airport, unable to be flown, CNN reports.
The full-size passenger airliner, which bears Trump's name across the side in large block letters, has fallen into disrepair. One engine is shrink-wrapped and the other is missing parts, according to the outlet.
Getting the plane, which was 20 years old when Trump purchased it in 2010, back into flying shape could reportedly cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Flight records obtained by CNN signal that Trump hasn't used the plane since leaving office in January.
Trump's Boeing 757 was a staple during his 2016 presidential campaign. Since becoming a private citizen, he's been flying on his smaller 1997 Cessna 750 Citation X corporate jet, according to CNN.
According to the Trump Organization, Trump's current jet can seat nine passengers comfortably.
"The small jet isn't his favorite," a former White House official told CNN. "It also doesn't have his name on the outside."
The source went on to explain that cost behind operating the large airliner, which the Trump Organization website dubs his "crown jewel," was a financial strain.
"Flying that thing was so expensive. I don't think people realized that just to get it up in the air and make one stop was literally tens of thousands of dollars," CNN's source said.
CNN aviation analyst David Soucie note that operating a Boeing 757 can cost anywhere from $15,000 to $18,000 per hour.
"It's an older engine and parts availability is becoming a challenge so operating costs go up significantly," Soucie said, according to CNN. "Most airlines are retiring the 757 since more cost-effective models are now available." According to Forbes, chartering a 757 similar to Trump's would cost about $25,000 an hour as a base charge. A jet similar to his Citation X would be in the price range of about $30,000 total. Trump's Boeing airliner, which includes a master bedroom, a 57-inch television and 24-karat gold seatbelt buckles, can comfortably fit 43 passengers.
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Post by Admin on Mar 21, 2021 0:38:00 GMT
To the surprise of no one, Donald Trump and his family were roasted on Twitter late Friday after it was reported that parts of the Mar-a-Lago luxury resort had to be shut down over COVID-19 concerns. According to a report from the Associated Press, "several people familiar with the situation, including a club member who received a phone call about the closure Friday. A receptionist at the Mar-a-Lago club confirmed the news, saying it was closed until further notice, but declined to comment further." Critics of the president were quick to point out that multiple pictures taken at the resort lately showed members cavorting about maskless, so a COVID outbreak was probably inevitable. As one critic put it: "Couldn't happen to better people." You can see more like that below:
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Post by Admin on Mar 21, 2021 19:50:43 GMT
Donald Trump will soon use “his own platform” to return to social media, an adviser said on Sunday, months after the former president was banned from Twitter for inciting the US Capitol riot.
Trump has chafed in relative silence at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida since losing his Twitter account and the protections and powers of office. Recently he has released short statements which many have likened to his tweets of old.
Speculation has been rife that Trump might seek to create his own TV network in an attempt to prise viewers from Fox News, which was first to call the crucial state of Arizona for Joe Biden on election night, to Trump’s considerable anger.
But on Sunday adviser Jason Miller said social media was the immediate target.
“The president’s been off of social media for a while,” he told Fox News Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz, “[but] his press releases, his statements have actually been getting almost more play than he ever did on Twitter before.”
Miller said he had been told by a reporter the statements were “much more elegant” and “more presidential” than Trump’s tweets, but added: “I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform.
“And this is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media, it’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does. But it will be his own platform.”
Asked if Trump was going to create the platform himself or with a company, Miller said: “I can’t go much further than what I was able to just share, but I can say that it will be big once he starts.
“There have been a lot of high-power meetings he’s been having at Mar-a-Lago with some teams of folks who have been coming in, and … it’s not just one company that’s approached the president, there have been numerous companies.
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