Trump’s resort is wide open
Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani’s close and complicated relationship goes way back, according to writer Andrew Kirtzman.
Not only has Kirtzman covered Giuliani’s political career for over 30 years, but he’s also the author of Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor. He came on this episode of political podcast The New Abnormal to give us insight into the lives of the former New York mayor and his pal Trump.
“We found a lot of correspondences between Giuliani and Trump during [Giuliani’s] mayoralty. And it was just fascinating. I mean, there was this kind of need that they both seemed to feel to impress the other. And I think that that still exists to this day,” he explains to co-host Molly Jong-Fast.
Kirtzman recounts that at one point Giuliani’s third wife, Judith, told him Trump was the one to step up and help Giuliani at one of his most depressive, lowest points—right after he lost the bid to run for president.
“For the next month, Trump houses them at this kind of beachfront property, and [they] found there were tunnels under Mar-a-Lago, where they were able to kind of walk back and forth undiscovered. It was there that Giuliani kind of was allowed to get back on his feet and rejoin the world,” he says.
There are secret tunnels under Trump’s private club, where he happens to live and had stored boxes full of classified documents.
What?
Apparently they are pretty easy to access:
A student gained access to Donald Trump‘s Florida residence while the president was staying at the property after sneaking through a tunnel leading from a nearby beach.
Mark Lindblom, who was 18 at the time, spent 20 minutes wandering around the communal areas of Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort before he was arrested.
Secret Service agents approached the teenager after becoming suspicious that he was not a member of the golf club.
He did not meet Mr Trump or the first lady during the incident, which occurred the day after Thanksgiving last November.
On Tuesday, Lindblom pleaded guilty to “knowingly” entering and staying in a restricted area and was sentenced to one year probation and a $25 (£20) fine.
No biggie, I guess. Just strangers entering Mar-a-lago through secret tunnels while Trump was there. As president. The good news is that the Secret Service noticed him wandering around and thought he might not be a member of the club. Now that Trump’s no longer president you can be sure that they are being even more vigilant.