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to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Donald Trump sold Mar-a-Lago before arrest, listing claims

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Donald Trump sold Mar-a-Lago before arrest, listing claims

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to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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A Zillow listing apparently shows that the former president "sold" the property weeks before his arrest. Eric Trump said the claim is "asinine."
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  • SCB@lemmy.world
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    Genuinely hope someone buys Mar A Lago and turns it into a document storage facility.

    • NegativeNull@lemm.ee@lemm.ee
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      Four Seasons Total Document Storage

      • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
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        Four Treasons

        • TwoGems@lemmy.world
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          More like 147 treasons

          https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

      • RustedSwitch@lemmy.world
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        Just wait until the folks next door to one side open a crematorium, and on the other side an adult book store.

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        where your most important or valuable documents are left in boxes outside the shower or spread out on the buffet table during luncheons.

    • TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world
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      With a document disposal system having two options, ‘flush’ and ‘bury’.

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    This seems a simple enough thing to resolve, in most states property ownership is a matter of public record, a journalist who isn’t lazy would just go to the Town Hall and look it up. But this is in Newsweek …

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      I would be surprised if the ownership of Mar-a-lago isn’t buried under at least six levels of shell companies.

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        You guys don’t need to guess about anything. You can simply read the article you know. It tells us who bought it and the date it was ‘sold’ to them.

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          It tells us who it thinks bought it, and the date it was sold, based on the output of a handful of websites (i.e. the output of a Google Search). It doesn’t cite anyone authoritarive.

          It does quote several Trump family members denying it entirely, but all that does is make it even more likely it’s true.

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          You have some high expectations for your fellow humans.

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      https://www.pbcgov.org/papa/Asps/PropertyDetail/PropertyDetail.aspx?parcel=50434335000020390&srchtype=ADV&owner=&streetno=1100&prefix=S&streetname=Ocean&suffix=&postdir=&unitno=&srchparcel=&range=&twp=§ion=&book=&page=&legal=&subdiv=&muni=Palm Beach&zip=&usetype=&condo=

      *NOTE: Sales do not generally appear in the PAPA database until approximately 1 to 3 weeks after the closing date. If a recent sale does not show up in this list, please allow more time for the sale record to be processed

      https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=MARALAGOCLUB F950000022280&aggregateId=forp-f95000002228-3284b385-24b0-4085-80aa-1ad81532e674&searchTerm=MAR-A-LAGO CLUB%2C L.L.C.&listNameOrder=MARALAGOCLUB F950000022280

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      Large real estate sales can take months to close. If the deal was signed on Aug. 4 then it probably hasn’t finalized yet.

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      a journalist who isn’t lazy would just go to the Town Hall

      The local news did and there was nothing there.

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      I believe I read another article about it stating he sold it to DT Jr.

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      The article tells you exactly who bought it.

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      Even better, Zillow, where this “journalist” got their info, gets that sales data from those public records. Lazy reporting like this just spreads misinformation. I would be ashamed to put my name on the byline of this shit.

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        What’s lazy about the article? Did you even bother to read it?

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    So Trump sold his building to a shell corporation, owned by Don Jr., and the funding for this would be via an investment made by the hedge fund which is managed by Don Jr. And, of course, a primary ($2B+) investor in that hedge fund is the MBS of the Saud family. Seems on the up and up.

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    For those who are accusing others of not reading the article, you’re probably right, but it wouldn’t much matter if they had because it’s been changing all day. As of a half hour ago, Newsweek is calling the listing “incorrect” and walking at all back, including the headline, which right now (2:05 PM EDT) reads as “‘Incorrect’ Listing Claimed Donald Trump Sold Mar-a-Lago Before Arrest”. A list of updates is at the end of the article:

    BY GIULIA CARBONARO ON 8/25/23 AT 4:29 AM EDT (original byline at the top)

    Update, 8/25/23 5:30 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include additional context.

    Update, 8/25/23 10:55 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include a comment from Eric Trump. The headline was also updated.

    Update, 8/25/23, 11:50 a.m. ET: This article was updated to reflect the listing apparently being updated from “sold” to “off market.”

    Update, 8/25/23, 1 p.m. ET: This article was updated with comments from Donald Trump Jr. to Breitbart News.

    Update, 8/25/23, 1:30 p.m. ET: This article was updated with a statement from Zillow saying the listing was “incorrect.” The headline was also updated.

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    Removed by mod

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Donald Trump has reportedly sold his signature Mar-a-Lago luxury residence in Florida, according to a Zillow listing which said the resort was purchased on August 4—weeks before the former president voluntarily turned himself in at Fulton County jail in Georgia, where he was booked on 13 felony counts.

    But a later report by The Express mentions that the former president might have not really “sold” the property, but simply transferred its ownership to an organization owned by his son Donald Trump Jr.

    The listing, which is still available on Zillow’s website, shows that a 5,061-square-foot residence at 1100 S Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida, was sold on Friday, August 4 for $422,000,000.

    While the home is not listed by Zillow as “Mar-a-Lago,” the address corresponds to that of Trump’s Palm Beach residence, and so does its size, roughly.

    The listing also mentioned that the last time that the property was sold was on April 6, 1995—the exact same date when the former president turned the residence, which he purchased in 1985, into The Mar-a-Lago Club.

    While Trump might have technically sold Mar-a-Lago, his family still has a private residence on the property grounds.


    The original article contains 263 words, the summary contains 194 words. Saved 26%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    It appears he sold it to Junior.

    Wow, so sneaky. I wonder if the DoJ and other various prosecutors will notice (they will 1000% notice)?

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    Does this mean he thinks he’s going to lose his court cases? I think that’s what it means, he’s not stupid. This might be a step towards fleeing as well.

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    $422M? Another fake over evaluation from his Trumpness? I skimmed the article but I can’t recall if it listed the actual price paid or only the evaluation. I wonder how many pennies he really sold it for.

    Did he sell it to avoid it being repossessed? Or to reduce his personal wealth? What’s he playing at?

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      they get to keep the club and saudis fund orange man’s get out of jail card

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      Signs point to “yes”

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    It’s 5061 square meters, not feet, Newsweek. That’d make for a pretty small club.

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    Sold to who himself?

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      His son, don Jr.

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      To his son at a rate 30x from it’s actual market value.

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