Of Course: Mar-a-Lago Has Underground Tunnels (A Security Nightmare)

[TheBlackAdder]

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According to a new book by Andrew Kurtzman, former attorney for Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and his third wife, Judith, secretly moved into a bungalow across from the ex-President's Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. At the time, Rudy Jailiani was drinking heavily. Although Rudy denies having a drinking problem, he's been accused of it quite often. Giuliani was suffering from depression at the time, too. Reports of Mar-a-Lago being a security nightmare just got worse.

Wealthy people used these tunnels to smuggle booze during Prohibition. Again, the entire place is a national security nightmare, and yet, that's where the one-term meathead kept our country's most sensitive documents, apparently just lying around all willy-nilly. Quick question: When is that traitor going to be perp-walked?
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/08/cours-mar-lago-reportedly-has-underground

Kirtzman’s reporting of Giuliani’s little-known 2008 stay at Mar-a-Lago – a period when in Giuliani’s ex-wife’s words he was both speaking to therapists and “always falling shitfaced somewhere” – also prefigures Giuliani’s current role in American public life, as a chaotic, picaresque Trump booster seemingly impervious to personal or political embarrassment.
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The former mayor and his wife, Kirtzman writes, moved into a bungalow across the street from Mar-a-Lago but connected by a tunnel underneath South Ocean Boulevard, one of many little known passages and rooms beneath the expansive resort. The secret route allowed the couple to come and go from Trump’s home without the media knowing.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/24/donald-trump-secret-mar-a-lago-stay-rudy-giuliani-drink-depression-wife-andrew-kirtzman-book

A student gained access to Donald Trump's Florida residence while the president was staying at the property after sneaking through a tunnel leading from a nearby beach.

Mark Lindblom, who was 18 at the time, spent 20 minutes wandering around the communal areas of Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort before he was arrested.

Secret Service agents approached the teenager after becoming suspicious that he was not a member of the golf club.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-mar-a-lago-security-breach-arrest-tunnel-mark-lindblom-a8934366.html

So, pretty much, packages could be placed anywhere in these tunnels for spies to pick up undetected.

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[A HERETIC I AM]

1. This entire idea that the property has a "network of tunnels" is absurd.

It makes for great copy, but it is COMPLETELY overblown.

I am not an expert on the property, nor am I a member of The Mar-A-Lago Club, but one thing I know for sure; THERE AREN’T A BUNCH OF TUNNELS UNDER A PROPERTY THAT SITS 6 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL!!!

As I said in this post , it’s obvious that there is ONE tunnel under South Ocean Blvd, leading to the beachside pool and the beach and provides access to the guest house (hardly a “bungalow) on the east side of Ocean Drive.

ONE. FUCKING. TUNNEL.

ONE. And it’s nothing but a walkway under a road to access the pool and the beach.



Right here; https://goo.gl/maps/najQEqhEe9v7X2Je7

The above might open to blue sky, so rotate the pic till you can see the property and locate the southeast corner of the front lawn. There is a pathway leading to the tunnel and you can clearly see the stairs leading down.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. I thought the same until the basement hallways and secured room. Apparently MAL was designed as such

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I posted an OP as to what would stop an ocean surge from wiping out the whole place. Then, I was schooled.

I had family in Ocean City NJ that owned a residence that was only one of six homes with a basement. And that sucker was bone dry. It had a sump but was never used.

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[303squadron]

2. I've lived in South Florida for over 60 years

The water table that close to the ocean is maybe 6 feet. There are no basements in my area to my knowledge. To have a tunnel in South Florida one would need to have a bunch of sump pumps working 24-7.

[obamanut2012]

3. Then you should know this is normal, and the tunnels

Are all over SOFL. Especially on Palm Beach and along A1A. All the older rich places have them.

[niyad]

7. Welcome to our DU family.

[obamanut2012]

4. Big deal - many older big houses have them here

Especially on Palm Beach and along A1A. Not a big deal, and they aren't even tunnels the way people on here think.

A security isue for a President, etc., but not a big deal.

[JHB]

5. It's a walkway under a road to provide beach access, not an "underground tunnel"

Yes, it would provide Giuliani a "secret route" simply by using the beach access rather than one of the main gates the media might be watching, but the tunnel itself is nothing mysterious or unusual.



Red circle is entrance/outlet on MAL side, yellow line is approximate path under the road.

MAL is on a barrier island. The water table there is much too high to maintain actual underground tunnels.

[Yorkie Mom]

8. Thanks for this!

[Princess Turandot]

9. The tunnel appears in a 1928 floor plan for the estate in the LoC's 'Historic American Buildings'

Survey. (It doesn't connect to the house itself. It's just an outdoor walkway.)

The place is on the National Register of Historic Places, having been built for Marjorie Merriweather Post in the 1920's. (She inherited/owned General Foods.) I don't think she had a swimming pool, so the beach tunnel must've come in handy, to avoid becoming roadkill.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.fl0181.photos/?sp=106

[Ligyron]

13. Thank you!

There are plenty of tunnels in Palm Beach connecting properties with the beach across the street. I've been in them myself many times and even in a damn basement here on beachfront property.

In fact, there's a house consisting of pod structures connected by tunnels and it's beachfront also.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Of course there are tunnels.

Of course there are tunnels.

They are connected to the system of tunnels between closed Walmarts.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tunnels+between+walmarts

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. How can you protect important documents at this place

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Two Chinese (PRC) nationals escorted from the premises ....

one carrying plenty of suspicious hardware.