Claim: Donald Trump violated Palm Beach ordinances by putting up an outsized U.S. flag and pole, then donating the money he was fined to veterans' organizations.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Mar-a-Lago
text: dropped his lawsuit over the flag, and in exchange the town waived its fines. As part of a court-ordered mediation, Trump was allowed to file for a permit and keep a pole that was both shorter than the original pole and located on a different spot on his lawn. The agreement also required him to donate $100,000 to veterans’ charities, as well as resulted in a change to town ordinances allowing out-of-town enrollees in club membership. In December 1997, Trump filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. In his suit Trump accused

title: Legal affairs of Donald Trump
text: Beach began fining Trump $250 per day for ordinance violations related to his erection of an flagpole flying a American flag on his property. Trump sued the town for $25 million, saying that they abridged his free speech, also disputing an ordinance that local businesses be "town-serving". The two parties settled as part of a court-ordered mediation, in which Trump was required to donate $100,000 to veterans' charities. At the same time, the town ordinance was modified allowing Trump to enroll out-of-town members in his Mar-a-Lago social club. After the 2008 housing-market collapse, Deutsche Bank attempted to collect $40 million

title: Mar-a-Lago
text: for health code violations. In January 2017, Florida inspectors noted 15 infraction that included unsafe seafood, insufficiently refrigerated meats, rusty shelving, and cooks without hairnets. Since 2013, it has faced 51 health code violations. On October 3, 2006, Trump raised a American flag on an flagpole at Mar-a-Lago. Town zoning officials asked Trump to adhere to town zoning codes that limit flagpoles to a height of . This dispute led the town council of Palm Beach to charge Trump $1,250 for every day that the flag stayed up. Trump filed a lawsuit against the Town of Palm Beach. Trump eventually

title: Donald J. Trump Foundation
text: violated the height restrictions but were not similarly fined. It also alleged that a shorter flagpole "would fail to appropriately express the magnitude of Donald J. Trump's…patriotism." Trump eventually reached a legal settlement with Palm Beach after, according to the "Sun Sentinel," "secret, court-ordered negotiations." Settlement documents show that Trump, in return for discharging the club's obligations to Palm Beach, had agreed to personally donate $100,000 to Fischer House, a charity benefitting veterans and military families. However, Trump then made the grant using foundation money, not his own. Trump's foundation paid $158,000 to the Martin B. Greenberg Foundation as a

title: Donald J. Trump Foundation
text: 2006 legal dispute between the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, and Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club. The town said that the club's flagpole violated town height limit rules and levied a daily accruing fine against the club. The club's flagpole was 80 feet tall, 38 feet above limits imposed by the town. Palm Beach began fining Trump $1,250 per day for the violation. Trump countersued Palm Beach for $25 million on US constitutional grounds for restricting his 1st amendment rights of free speech and his 14th amendment rights of equal protection. The suit alleged that at least 20 other properties had

title: Mar-a-Lago
text: the town of discriminating against Mar-a-Lago for allowing black and Jewish members, groups not typically welcome in the area's other clubs. According to "Vanity Fair", "Trump and his attorney had already implied that he and his club had been discriminated against because many of its members were Jewish, and, worse, that the council members who had placed the conditions on him had not placed those restrictions on their own clubs." Trump has repeatedly filed lawsuits against Palm Beach County over aircraft going to and from Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) allegedly affecting Mar-a-Lago. Trump first filed such a lawsuit in

title: Kappa Alpha Order
text: in New Orleans, Louisiana, constructed a sand-bag wall around its house that contained spray-painted slogans in reference to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. The chapter said that the wall had been built for an annual "capture the flag" game and that the pro-Trump slogans were satirical and not in support of the candidate or his message. Some students protested that the wall was offensive and anti-immigrant or anti-Latino. The wall was later forcefully dismantled, allegedly in part by members of the Tulane football team. In 1980, several students at Vanderbilt

title: Political positions of Donald Trump
text: Bill. In January 2016, Trump hosted a fundraising rally for veterans (skipping a televised Republican debate to do so). Weeks later, after the "Wall Street Journal" inquired with the Trump campaign when veterans' groups would receive their checks, the funds began to be disbursed. In April, the "Journal" reported that the funds had yet to be fully distributed. In May, NPR confirmed directly with 30 recipient charities that they had received their funds, "accounting for $4.27 million of the $5.6 million total," while the remaining 11 charities did not answer the question. in February 2018, the Trump administration initiated a

title: Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
text: "The Washington Post" reported in September 2016 that foundation was fined $2,500 by the IRS for using the funds to make a political contribution to Bondi's PAC. Video and accompanying audio were released by "The Washington Post" on October 7, 2016, in which Trump referred obscenely to women in a 2005 conversation with Billy Bush while they were preparing to film an episode of "Access Hollywood". Trump said that he could grab women "by the pussy" and get away with it, because he is a "star". The audio was met with a reaction of disbelief and disgust from the media.

title: Jupiter, Florida
text: around here, because they're the same as the pole. And my pole is a portable pole. And the state government says I can do it." George Andres won and was allowed to display his flag in his front lawn with the use of a flagpole. During the last week of July 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005, allowing residents to display the flag on their residential property despite any homeowners association rules. In 2014, American Television Show "American Horror Story" premiered its fourth season titled "'"' set in 1950s Jupiter,

title: Legal affairs of Donald Trump
text: a golf course there and planned to build an adjacent hotel. Trump lost his suit, with the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruling in favor of the Scottish government in 2015. In 2013, 87-year-old Jacqueline Goldberg alleged that Trump cheated her in a condominium sale by bait-and-switch when she was purchasing properties at the Trump International Hotel and Tower. In 2015, Trump initiated a $100 million lawsuit against Palm Beach County claiming that officials, in a "deliberate and malicious" act, pressured the FAA to direct air traffic to the Palm Beach International Airport over his Mar-a-Lago estate, because

title: Donald J. Trump Foundation
text: outside source (see above). He had pledged the money personally, and then the Trump Foundation solicited the $150,000 earmarked for the police foundation from an unrelated philanthropic organization, the Charles Evans Foundation. The Trump Foundation then paid the $150,000 to the Palm Beach charity. The police then honored Trump personally with its annual Palm Tree Award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago hotel at its annual fundraiser. "The Washington Post" wrote that "Trump had effectively turned the Evans Foundation's gifts into his own gifts, without adding any money of his own." The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has honored Trump variously as "Grand Benefactor" and

title: Palos Verdes Peninsula
text: violent confrontation with Hermosa Beach surfers. Surveillance cameras were placed in the surfing area but were later removed. In 2016, The Coastal Commission targeted the group after "renewed reports that their un-permitted structure [built along Lunada Bay] was being used as a spot for ongoing bullying and intimidation." On July 12, 2016, City Manager Tony Dahlerbruch is recommending the removal of the illegal structure after pressure from the California Coastal Commission. The Trump National Golf Club is a Donald Trump venture with a golf course on the Ocean Trails cliffs. The 18th hole of the prior golf course fell victim

title: Protests against Donald Trump
text: and $4,400 in fines. On July 25, 2018 at 3:33 A.M., police responded to a report of a man vandalizing Trump's star with a pickaxe that was hidden in a guitar case. An hour later 24-year old Austin Clay turned himself in and was arrested for felony vandalism. Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was left as rubble with the pickaxe left behind. The local KNBC news affiliate found a witness who said he’d asked the vandal, “What did Donald Trump do to you?” without getting a response. The star was replaced the next day. Later a brawl

title: Trump Plaza (West Palm Beach)
text: working out well for me. The press doesn't like to write that." Actress Deborah Raffin purchased a three-bedroom unit for $210,000 during the auction, while a penthouse sold for $700,000 to Morry Weiss, the president of American Greetings. The five-foot-high letters spelling out the Trump Plaza name atop the buildings were removed beginning in 1993, for maintenance. After suspicions of a permanent removal of the name, residents voted 95 to 74 to restore the lettering. Trump then volunteered to pay for the cost of having the signs restored. In December 2015, residents began a petition to change the name of

title: Jason Flores-Williams
text: burn the homeless people's possessions after the raids and held a BBQ where the sweeps had occurred. Class-action status for the homeless people suing the city was initially denied, but was ultimately approved. Three of the homeless people who were a part of the lawsuit were convicted of violating the city's ordinance on camping. After the mass arrests at the DisruptJ20 during the Inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017, Flores-Williams was the attorney for the first three defendants facing charges of property destruction or assaults on police. In September 2017, Flores-Williams filed a controversial lawsuit on behalf of

title: Legal affairs of Donald Trump
text: Alvin Bamberger and an unnamed defendant). One defendant, Bamburger, who was wearing a Veteran's uniform in the video, apologized to the Korean War Veterans Association immediately after the event, writing that he "physically pushed a young woman down the aisle toward the exit" after "Trump kept saying 'get them out, get them out." Trump's attorneys requested to get the case dismissed, arguing he was protected by free speech laws, and wasn't trying to get his supporters to resort to violence. They also stated that Trump had no duty to the protesters, and they had assumed the personal risk of injury

title: Mar-a-Lago
text: noise, emissions and pollutants at Mar-a-Lago". Trump claims that officials pressured the FAA to direct air traffic to PBI over Mar-a-Lago in a "deliberate and malicious" act. In November 2015, a Florida Circuit Court judge ruled against most of Trump's arguments, dismissing four of the six claims and allowing the others to proceed. Trump dropped the lawsuit after winning the presidency, as the estate will likely have a no-fly zone imposed by the FAA. In January 2017, Palm Beach exempted Mar-a-Lago from a ban on landing helicopters on residential properties while Trump is president, including his own fleet and Marine

title: Trump Plaza (West Palm Beach)
text: the property back to The Plaza. The petition was started after Trump, during his U.S. presidential campaign, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, although it was unclear if that was the reason for the petition. Later that month, the five-member condominium board of directors rejected the petition, which was believed to have been organized by three residents. The board released a statement reading: "Within the continental United States there are dozens of high-rise office towers and residential condominiums with the Trump name. They all command prices and rentals per square foot that are 10 to 20

title: American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial
text: lavishly spending $840,000 a year. These legal issues were subsequently settled when an agreement was reached in which Lois Pope gave Paul and his five siblings a combined $12 million. Despite the negative press, major donations continued to come in. Donald Trump gave $25,000 for an illuminated flag and flagpole at the memorial in late August 2007. With nowhere nearly enough money on hand to begin construction by the legislatively mandated deadline, the memorial foundation petitioned Congress for an extension, arguing that fundraising would be complete by 2010. Legislation to extend the deadline was introduced in the House of Representatives