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20 Oct, 27 tweets, 18 min read
Trump National Golf Club Westchester

private club located just outside NYC

“The diverse natural terrain and rolling topography creates a dramatic venue, with varying elevation changes and water hazards including winding streams, stone bridges and …”

trumpnationalwestchester.com
“… stone bridges and a scenic 101-foot waterfall.”

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“Trump National Golf Club #Westchester is a private golf club in #Briarcliff Manor, New York. The 140-acre course has eighteen holes, with a 75,000-square-foot clubhouse.

Founded in 1922 as Briarcliff Country Club …”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Nat…
… Donald Trump “purchased the property in 1996 and renamed the club after its county, #Westchester

Donald Trump served as president over Trump National Golf Club LLC (managing the Westchester club) from August 2000 until January 19, 2017, the day before his inauguration.”
“Located just 30 minutes from Manhattan in the heart of #Westchester County, award winning services and exceptional facilities are the hallmarks of a club that lends itself to today’s families and to future generations – all sharing a common passion …”

stardiamondaward.com/trumpwestchest…
‘How Trump’s $50m golf club became $1.4m when it came time to pay tax’

‘Same Donald Trump-owned golf club is separately accused of causing floods that led to $240,000 worth of damage to New York village of #Briarcliff Manor’

#Westchester
theguardian.com/us-news/2016/m…
“… Trump’s new valuation, however, contrasts with the 92-page financial disclosure document that he released to the US government as he embarked on his audacious campaign for the presidency last year.” [12 March 2016]

#Westchester
#Briarcliff
#Ossining
theguardian.com/us-news/2016/m…
“The club was tied up in controversy in the summer of 2017 when a Forbes investigation into the Eric Trump Foundation’s fundraising events that included an annual charity golf tournament. The tournament took place in #Westchester in 2015 and several …”

lohud.com/story/news/pol…
“… several other years since the foundation’s formation in 2007. …

The club applied for permission to hire foreign workers to be waiters, waitresses and cooks last year ahead of the spring season. The club wanted to hire 14 summer workers from other…”

lohud.com/story/news/pol…
“… The club wanted to hire 14 summer workers from other countries through the Department of Labor’s H-2B visa program.

The program, which allows companies to bring in temporary non-agricultural workers, is often relied upon by golf clubs”

#Westchester
lohud.com/story/news/pol…
“Houses on the 147-acre, 18-hole luxury golf course win a one-third cut in their property taxes because their developer declared them to be condominiums. A loophole in state law forces towns to dramatically cut the assessments of condos -even when they…”

syracuse.com/state/2018/05/…
“… even when they just appear to be regular houses.

The unintended tax break has annoyed neighbors who are already protesting President Donald Trump's attempt to reduce the taxes on the whole golf course by 90 percent.”

#Westchester County
#Ossining
syracuse.com/state/2018/05/…
5 April 1999

‘Trump’s Garish Golf Course Plan Disrupts Quiet #Westchester Town’

“Enter Donald Trump–and suddenly the town’s sleepy mayoral election took on the look of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.”

“steal” election
Coup plotters
observer.com/1999/04/trumps…
‘Trump National Golf Club: Attorney General looking into working conditions complaints’

“State lawmakers are trying to get golf courses in NY to be reassessed at a higher rate bc the #Westchester course was able to successfully lower its tax assessment.”

poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/loc…
‘Once upon a time, when Bill Clinton needed a golf haven, he turned to Donald Trump’

“Dowd recalls a conversation w/Trump in which the real-estate magnate told her he built Trump National in part ‘because he knew Bill Clinton would need a place to play.’”
golfdigest.com/story/once-upo…
“‘… Trump realized that golf was his entree if he wanted to pal around with Bill Clinton, whom he considered a kindred spirit in some ways — a great man who attracted jealous haters,’ Dowd writes.”

#Westchester County
#Ossing
#Briarcliff Manor
#Chappaqua
golfdigest.com/story/once-upo…
‘When Hillary and Donald Were Friends’

“As the Clintons fashioned a new life in New York, Trump was transforming himself as well …

Trump greased the wheels of his relationship … giving the Clinton Foundation a $100,000 gift from his own foundation.”

nytimes.com/2016/11/06/mag…
“…He happened to have his own country club with a golf course in #Westchester which he … [reopened in 2002]…

It was six miles from the Clintons’ house, and Trump could play with him, ingratiating himself further by hanging photos of Bill on the wall.“

nytimes.com/2016/11/06/mag…
‘Trump Organization, Already Under Indictment, Faces New Criminal Inquiry’

‘The investigation, by the #Westchester County district attorney’s office, increases the legal scrutiny of the former president and his family business’

#Rocah
Elliott B. Jacobson
nytimes.com/2021/10/20/nyr…
"In recent months, the district attorney's office in suburban #Westchester County, N.Y., has subpoenaed records from the course, Trump National Golf Club Westchester, and the town of #Ossining, which sets property taxes on the course”

rawstory.com/mimi-rocah-tru…
‘Trump’s Pile of Legal Fights Grows Bigger With New Golf Course Probe, Says Report’

Trump National Golf Club #Westchester

Westchester County District Attorney’s Office

thedailybeast.com/trumps-pile-of…
“Andrew Tesoro, who tells how Donald Trump cheated his five-person architecture firm out of thousands of dollars back in 2006 when it designed the clubhouse at the Trump National Golf Club in the #Westchester County town of #Briarcliff Manor, NY.”

forbes.com/sites/forbestr…
“Tesoro’s small business was virtually left bankrupt as a result, and he had to use the money set aside for his son’s college education, and most of his savings to eventually rescue his firm.”

#Westchester
#TrumpBills
ny.curbed.com/2016/9/27/1307…
“Trump hired Tesoro’s firm in 2002 to design a clubhouse for the Trump National Golf Club in #Westchester, New York. But after the structure was completed, the Trump Organization refused to pay what Tesoro billed and offered less than a third of the fee”

fastcompany.com/3064121/the-ar…
“Tesoro said that after four years of work on a project that nearly doubled in size per Trump’s request, he was owed $140,000. Instead of paying him, Trump’s team of legal bulldogs bullied him into accepting a mere $50,000, a bill that remained …”

alternet.org/2016/09/10-peo…
“… remained outstanding past its due date. In a final face-to-face meeting with Trump himself, Tesoro was offered just $25,000.”

#Westchester
#TrumpWestchester
alternet.org/2016/09/10-peo…

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