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BumRushDaShow

(162,418 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:12 AM Oct 15

Judge Blocks Miami Land Transfer for Trump Presidential Library

Source: Newsweek

Oct 15, 2025 at 03:43 AM EDT


A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily froze the transfer of a multi-million dollar plot of prime downtown Miami land for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library.

Why It Matters

The plot of nearly three acres of prime downtown Miami property is valued at more than $67 million, and could be worth much more, The Associated Press reported. Florida media reported that there could be plans for a hotel on the plot, as well as the presidential library.

What To Know

Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz put a block on the transfer after an activist said that officials at the state-run Miami Dade College, which owned the land, violated Florida's open government law when they gifted it to the state, which then voted to transfer it to a foundation for the planned library.

“This is not an easy decision,” Mavel said from the bench, on her finding that the college did not give the public reasonable notice ahead of a September 23 vote by its board to give up the plot. “This is not a case, at least for this court, rooted in politics,” Mavel said. Activist Marvin Dunn filed a lawsuit this month against the Board of Trustees for the college, arguing that it violated Florida law by not providing sufficient notice for its special meeting on September 23, when it voted to give up the land.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/judge-blocks-miami-land-transfer-for-trump-presidential-library-10881098



REFERENCES

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143496776
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143535637
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143543386
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Judge Blocks Miami Land Transfer for Trump Presidential Library (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 15 OP
Thank you, you just made my day. no_hypocrisy Oct 15 #1
Where will the house The Art of the Steal? GreenWave Oct 15 #2
May the bottom five floors... littlemissmartypants Oct 15 #3
There may be land suited to the library's use greatauntoftriplets Oct 15 #4
The Bermuda Triangle is markodochartaigh Oct 15 #5
There could be plans for a hotel on the plot. Lonestarblue Oct 15 #6
I never thought of it, but it would be just like him..... JohnnyRingo Oct 15 #7
He doesn't need a lot of space to house a box of used Sharpies Wicked Blue Oct 15 #8
Don't forget his favorite book that he's never read: Mein Kampf. littlemissmartypants Oct 15 #9
Hope it timms139 Oct 15 #10

littlemissmartypants

(30,677 posts)
3. May the bottom five floors...
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:18 AM
Oct 15

Be permanently inundated by a combination of seawater, sewer water, toxic runoff and black mold from the dark day it opens through all eternity.

🪄💫

Lonestarblue

(13,045 posts)
6. There could be plans for a hotel on the plot.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:41 AM
Oct 15

In other words, the Trump Organization will be given part of the land to build a hotel next to the library so the can profit from the museum into perpetuity. The grifting never stops with the Trumps.

JohnnyRingo

(20,255 posts)
7. I never thought of it, but it would be just like him.....
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:13 AM
Oct 15

...to open The DJT Presidential Library and Hotel.
Sounds like it's prime real estate that would be better suited to Florida's tourist industry. And Trump is not going to pass up monetizing the office, even after he's gone.

Wicked Blue

(8,322 posts)
8. He doesn't need a lot of space to house a box of used Sharpies
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:20 AM
Oct 15

or his TV remote and cellphone. They could set up the"library" in an abandoned outhouse.

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