Re Mar a Lago:
I recall that Trump the Titan was also in a bidding war for Mar a Lago with...
Jeffrey Epstein.
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In November 2004, The Apprentice host said he was fixated on winning “the finest piece of land in Florida and probably the U.S.,” refering to the six-acre parcel that the bank seized from Abe Gosman, a businessman who made his money building nursing homes. It was, by Trump’s estimation, the “second greatest house in America,’” conveniently just a ten-minute drive from the number-one home, Mar-a-Lago. Gosman had purchased the property in 1988 for around $12 million from Leslie Wexner, Epstein’s benefactor; with a strong initial bid at-auction of $37.25 million, it appeared the financier was about to take it back. But bidding soon shot up to $38.6 million and “Trump had made up his mind to get it no matter the price,” a lawyer present at the auction told the Washington Post. Trump’s bid eventually rose to $41.35 million, and he won the house. That month also marked the last known contact between the two: Shortly after the auction, Trump left two voicemails for Epstein at his Palm Beach home.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/trump-epstein-friendship-ended-over-mansion-report.html
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NOTE: “THE SECOND GREATEST HOUSE IN AMERICA”
Hmmmm, why would Epstein want a home that was built as a White House, with bomb shelters and a SCIF?
For his visitors, former President Bill Clinton and future President Hillary.
I notice that article (by Matt Stieb) draws heavily on the WAPO (Aug2019). At that time Stieb and the WaPo didn’t care too much for The GREATEST PRESIDENT EVAH, Donald J. Trump, nor did they invest much of their time bothering with the truth. Seems they left out the widely reported:
“Jeffrey Epstein turned Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago into another of his hunting grounds for young girls, leading Trump to bar him from the Florida resort, court papers claim.”