Donald Trump Suddenly Invites People Into Mar-a-Lago

Former President Donald Trump is suddenly inviting supporters into his home at Mar-a-Lago.

It was a busy weekend at the Palm Beach property in Florida. Several Trump fans said they were personally invited to visit the resort on Saturday while others posted photos of themselves inside the club on Sunday. Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign via email for comment.

Valeria Bianco, a longtime supporter of the former president, told WPTV that she had joined a small group to wave at his motorcade when it passed Bingham Island. After the cars drove by, she said a member of Trump’s team returned “and invited us to go to Mar-a-Lago.”

She said they were instructed “to get into a Secret Service van, get checked out and go to Mar-a-Lago.” She said she and six others were taken to a ballroom once they got to Trump’s home, “and then, lo and behold, our president appeared.”

Bianco said that during the photo-op with Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee “acknowledged” the continued support from the MAGA base and that she got to “talk a little bit about that” with him.

A day later, Al Baldasaro, a former New Hampshire state Representative who has been described as “Trump’s biggest fan,” shared photos on his Facebook page of his friends at the club. He appeared to be joined by three other friends, whose social media profiles show them to be prominent supporters of the former president, having attended various rallies and dressed in Trump memorabilia.

“We all were personally invited by Pres Trump to come inside when he saw us on the water by Mar-A-Lago today. Beautiful!” Baldasaro captioned the photo.

One of the men that Baldasaro tagged in his post included Jestin Nevarez, who posted photos from inside Mar-a-Lago last month with the caption, “When the real President invites you and your friends to his house for lunch.”

Baldasaro, a retired marine who previously served as an adviser to Trump during his 2016 campaign, made headlines during Trump’s first presidential campaign after he attended “nearly every rally Trump has held in the US north-east” that year, often onstage speaking in his role as co-chairman of the candidate’s New Hampshire veterans’ coalition.

Baldasaro’s wife Judy said they were invited into the former president’s home after the group had docked a boat decorated with pro-Trump flags near Mar-a-Lago.

“Trump saw us on the boat and invited us inside,” Judy Baldasaro wrote in a Facebook post, according to the independent outlet Talking Points Memo. “He sent his aide to run out to tell us to come in for refreshments. See Trump waving at us in photos !!”

In an interview with TPM, her husband said while the former president couldn’t join them because he was tied up at another function, “We docked, beached our boats, and then went in.”

“Trump seen it from a distance,” he said. “He was up there on the balcony, and then he told one of his guys to come call us, and one of his guys knew the cell phone of the big boat with the big flags because they do the flag waving for Trump.”