Washington Post: Trump turns Mar-a-Lago Club terrace into open-air situation room
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.
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WNU Editor: This is wrong on so many levels that I do not know where to begin. Mar-a-Lao has a secured room for President Trump, he should have gotten up with the Japanese PM and they should have used it instead of discussing it in the open as they did .... Trump's Mar-a-Lago Has a Secure Room? Great! Then Use It (WIRED).
Update: The White House is saying that nothing sensitive was discussed at the table .... and that the secured room was actually used twice for briefing President Trump on the North Korean missile launch.... Trump Was Briefed In Secure Facility At Mar-A-Lago (CNN).
More News On Reports That President Trump Breached Security Protocols
From Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to Facebook, a National Security Crisis in the Open -- New York Times
House Oversight Committee Probes Mar-a-Lago Security After North Korea Incident -- Time
Donald Trump discussed response to North Korea missile test at Mar-a-Lago dinner table -- ABC News Online
Donald Trump National Security Risk? Call On North Korea Missile Test Taken In Public -- IBTimes
'Utterly shocking': National security experts say Trump is making foreign intelligence agencies' jobs much easier -- Business Insider
Dems slam Trump for public Mar-a-Lago briefing -- Reuters
The House Oversight Committee wants to know more about Trump’s Mar-a-Lago briefing -- The Verge
Oversight chair asks WH for security details of Mar-a-Lago meeting -- The Hill
