Immediately following the shooting at a Trump rally on July 13th, the Secret Service closed South Ocean Boulevard, the road that runs to and from the former president’s beach resort. However, the mayor of the town it’s located in, Palm Beach, says just closing the road isn’t sufficient, and doesn’t solve the problem of Trump […]
  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Julie Araskog, a Council member, said that safety concerns weren’t just over the threats that Trump faced. Many of the elderly people that Florida is famous for live in the area, and they’re worried that the closure will affect care services and emergency vehicle access.

    “Our residents don’t feel safe right now,” said Araskog.

    Meanwhile, the mayor said one resident had told her they’d traveled an hour to make a delivery that normally would’ve taken ten minutes.

    And the Town Manager, Kirk Blouin, was pretty direct himself: “We’re at the slowest point that we’re going to be and we’re already seeing the impacts.”

    The bottom line is, the city is suffering, and Donald Trump is still holding fundraisers, many of them themed on the assassination attempt — the reason the road is closed in the first place.

    Emphasis added for wtf

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s the fascist-revolutionary compound of an authoritarian leader. Let’s stop calling it a resort.

    • firebyte@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The bottom line is, the city is suffering, and Donald Trump is still holding fundraisers, many of them themed on the assassination attempt — the reason the road is closed in the first place.

      Perhaps one silver lining of Trumps scandal-after-scandal aura: the assassination attempt was just over a month ago, and it seems that almost everyone has forgotten about it.

      Teflon Don perhaps works both ways.