What Even Is a Trump Presidential Library?
That's what the "library" will be in this case: a legal-on-its-face way for a lifetime scam artist to continue scamming the American public even after he, hopefully, leaves office.
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A week ago, a plot of incredibly valuable land in downtown Miami belonged to public Miami Dade College. It doesn't look like much — it is, in fact, a parking lot at the moment. But it sits directly next to the iconic Freedom Tower, and is within shouting distance of Biscayne Bay, the Miami Heat's arena, and various other downtown landmarks. It is, even with just the parking spaces in place, likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Today, that land belongs to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation. Miami Dade College gifted the plot to the state of Florida last week, apparently at the sudden request of the state and without public input or discussion of any kind. Then on Tuesday, Ron DeSantis and his small cabinet voted unanimously — after a discussion, per the New York Times, of "less than three minutes" — to pass the land on to the Trump nonprofit, which is run by Eric Trump and a few other family members.
