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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Andrew Witherspoon, Chris Michael and Richard Luscombe in Miami, Florida

Mar-a-Lago: the lax security of Trump’s alternative ‘White House’ – visualized

An aerial view of Mar-a-Lago.
An aerial view of Mar-a-Lago. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Long before FBI agents found highly classified documents close to public areas of Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort that Donald Trump calls home, a number of other eyebrow-raising incidents have heightened concerns over the property’s security.

They range from a Chinese national carrying multiple mobile phones and computer malware making it through a Secret Service checkpoint, to a fake heiress breezing in for photographs with the former president, to diners looking over Trump’s shoulder at a laptop displaying top secret information about North Korean missile launches.

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