Trump turns Mar-a-Lago Club terrace into open-air situation room
By David A. Fahrenthold and Karen DeYoung
February 13 ?
It was Saturday night, and Palm Beach’s tony Mar-a-Lago Club was packed. There was a wedding reception in the ballroom. There was a full house for dinner on the terrace.
And at one table on the terrace, there was the president and the leader of a major U.S. ally, hashing out a national security problem in the open air.
“Someone opened up a laptop, and at the table .?.?. a group of Japanese people stood around the prime minister and Donald, and they were all looking at the laptop,” said Jay Weitzman, a member of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and founder of the Pennsylvania-based parking management company Park America. He was sitting three tables away from Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday evening.
“Whoa,” Weitzman remembered thinking. “What’s going on?”
“Turns out, it was a missile launch,” he said Monday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-turns-mar-a-lago-club-terrace-into-open-air-situation-room/2017/02/13/c5525096-f20d-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.052865a8571cA paying member of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, took photos of the moment Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were surrounded by Trump aides during dinner to be briefed on North Korea's missile test on Saturday.
The meeting was conducted in the open, in front of members of the club, with cellphone lights pointing toward sensitive documents. The decision-making about responding to North Korea was "on full view to fellow diners," CNN reported.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-aides-appeared-brief-him-165344906.html
