Why is it that Donald Trump is always having trouble getting his toe stubbed by annoying little laws?

There is a tale out of Florida that shows that much of it might be the result of always wanting to have it his way, and worry about laws after the fact. It might also have something to do with his inability to think anything fully through, always going after the immediate problem.

Donald Trump has always wanted a boat dock at Mar-a-Lago. The problem according to a story in Rawstory is that only “residential” owners can have boat docks in Florida’s interior waterways. Perhaps Donald Trump changed his “residential status” solely to qualify for the dock.

But in doing so, he may have put himself in many more violations with contracts he already signed with the city of West Palm Beach:

Ah, therein lies the quandary: At the time of purchasing Mar-a-Largo in 1993, Trump signed agreements with the town of 8,000 that he was opening a club, not a residence. The town wary about new water traffic in converting Mar-a-Lago from a single-family residence to a private club owned by a corporation that Trump controls.

The agreement also bans members from using the club’s guest rooms for longer than seven days at a time three times a year. Trump’s attorney at the time, Paul Rampell, assured town council members that he would not live at the club.

So, he owns a club, not private residence, which means that in registering to vote, just maybe Trump has made his voting address moot.

And if one doesn’t have a proper residential voting address, but voted anyway in the Florida primary, what did one just do? Exactly, illegally voted, “voter fraud.”

To make things even worse, according to the article, if Trump insists that “No, I didn’t vote illegally, my primary residential address is Mar-a-Lago,” then he might just have just breached his agreement with West Palm Beach to have a club at Mar-a-Lago, since something can be a residence, or it can be a club, but it cannot be a residence and a club.

It looks like Trump’s inability to think things through has boxed him into doing one of two things – he can pick. He can admit he committed voter fraud and cast an illegal ballot, or he can lose the license to have a club in West Palm Beach, a town that probably doesn’t particularly like Trump, nor his club. He may not get that license back.

And all he wanted was a boat dock.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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