"On Sept. 30, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet unanimously agreed to donate a 2.63-acre parcel of prime downtown Miami real estate to the foundation that will develop the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library. The land, used for parking by Miami Dade College, has been valued at more than $67 million, but the state asked for nothing in return for this gift."
"It's not a surprise that Donald Trump's supporters are making plans for a library of his papers and other keepsakes after he leaves the Oval Office. It's been a common practice to establish presidential libraries, usually in the home states of the former presidents, dating back to Depression-era President Herbert Hoover. However, the site Trump's supporters have chosen for his library and the manner in which it was acquired are both ironic and legally questionable."
"The location is right next door to Freedom Tower, an iconic landmark that, after its early days as the Miami News headquarters, later served as the Cuban Refugee Center, a place " where hundreds of thousands of Cuban exiles were welcomed to the United States." The center accommodated many refugees who were fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime in the 1960s, and they're the ancestors of a substantial portion of Miami's present-day population."
Donald Trump's supporters are planning a presidential library for his papers and keepsakes after he leaves office. Presidential libraries have been common practice since Herbert Hoover. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet unanimously agreed on Sept. 30 to donate a 2.63-acre downtown Miami parcel to the foundation that will develop the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library. The parcel, used for Miami Dade College parking, is valued at more than $67 million and was given with no payment requested. Neither the Cabinet nor the college's board of trustees spent much time discussing the decision. The site sits next to the Freedom Tower, a landmark that served as the Cuban Refugee Center and now houses a museum dedicated to that history.
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