Mar-a-Lago, the president’s favorite property, is suddenly under a dark cloud as a nexus where the novel coronavirus could have spread among elites in the U.S. and around the world.
Mar-a-Lago, the crown jewel of President Donald Trump’s real estate empire, has been his refuge and sanctuary throughout his time in office.
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. Members can dine at the beach club or on the patio, and on weekends when Trump is in town, be entertained by the action of a presidential entourage and annoyed by the increase in security. The quintessential host, Trump is known to hold court in the club going from member to member to chit-chat.
Splashed across the front of the Sunday Palm Beach Post was the headline, “Four Mar-a-Lago visitors test positive.” And the front page of one of Florida’s biggest newspapers, The Miami Herald, read: “A member of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club delivered a letter requesting a summit with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The meeting ended up inadvertently exposing Trump and others to the coronavirus.
“I wouldn’t have gone there if I felt I was at risk,” Greene said, though he noted he didn’t see hand sanitizer anywhere. The atmosphere at the club was described as “carefree” and “happy” by one guest. Mar-a-Lago, like much of the nation at the time, did not seem concerned by the virus that was only just blistering up in the United States. Guests in formal wear were taking selfies cheek to cheek, standing shoulder to shoulder for Instagram posts, and seen leaning in closely to hear each other amid the noise drifting through crowded rooms.
“The President’s exposure to the first individual was extremely limited , and though he spent more time in close proximity to the second case, all interactions occurred before any symptom onset,” Conley wrote.
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