Mar-a-Lago arrest spotlights security risks at Trump estate
She said she was going to the swimming pool at the Palm Beach presidential estate and presented agents with two Chinese passports in her name. That raised suspicions with her screeners, but a call to the front desk at Mar-a-Lago revealed a club member with a similar last name and with that, and a possible language barrier, reception waved her through.
Democratic lawmakers were inquiring about a possible connection to Li Yang, the Republican donor and spa owner who promised Chinese business leaders that her consulting firm could get them access to the president at Mar-a-Lago. "For the president, I think Mar-a-Lago is not so much a club, but his Xanadu," said Chris Ruddy, publisher of Newsmax and a longtime club member and Trump friend."My feeling is he also sees it as place of destiny and fate because Mrs. Post wanted it as the winter White House."
The agency said in a statement that, with the exception of certain facilities that are protected permanently, like the White House,"the practice used at Mar-a-Lago is no different than that long used at any other site temporarily visited by the president."Unlike Ronald Reagan's and George W. Bush's ranches or George H.W. Bush's seaside vacation home in Maine, Mar-a-Lago is open to members who pay $14,000 annual dues after a $100,000 or $200,000 initiation fee.
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