Palm Beach County, Florida, is reportedly investigating the possibility of ending its lease agreement with President Trump’s local golf course.
This week, an official in the county examined a contract with the Trump Organization to see if it was possible to end a lease agreement with the Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach, according to the Palm Beach Post.
Chief assistant county attorney, Howard Falcon, told the paper that an unnamed county official asked him whether or not the lease could be canceled, and he says he does not believe it can be.
“My initial reaction is it would be a stretch,” Falcon said. Trump reportedly pays $88,338 a month in rent for the property.
A lawyer for the golf course confirmed that he had spoken with Falcon and stated that there is “no basis for canceling the lease.”
News of the attempted lease termination comes a month after it was reported that some of Trump’s neighbors at his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he plans to live after leaving the White House, are trying to prevent him from settling down there.
In a letter to the U.S. Secret Service and the town of Palm Beach, some residents insisted that Trump would be violating a 1993 agreement he made with the town that Mar-a-Lago would not be used as his full-time residence.
Despite the letter, Trump is reportedly planning to fly to Mar-a-Lago sometime before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and live there full time while employing some of his former aides.
