West Palm Beach, Florida – President Donald Trump’s team is already looking for locations for his presidential library, and Florida can be a main contender.
A Florida legislator said Monday that the State has a “high probability” to obtain its first presidential library.
Presidential libraries are significant for historical archives after the administration that represent materials of the mandate of a former president. They require years of planning and do not use federal funds.
Here are some things that you should know about a possible Trump presidential library:
The State Senate Rules Committee, unanimously supported the bill of Senator Jason Brodeur who said “would prevent any municipality or county from imposing feeding obstacles to the establishment of a presidential library within the State.”
Brodeur said that other states that built presidential libraries had construction of construction created to follow state and local laws, and Florida would need the same. He also said that all former presidents are welcome to put a presidential library in Florida, not just Trump.
“I anticipate that this will be a fairly popular attraction. He is someone who is probably the most famous developer in the world at this time, ”he said.
Brodeur’s bill occurs when Trump’s team is analyzing several universities in southern Florida, including Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University, as possible places for a presidential library.
A secretary of the FOUU’s president’s office said he had not heard of any plan for a presidential library and declined to comment. Fau E Fiu spokesmen, and the White House Press Office did not immediately respond to messages about possible plans for a presidential library.
Traditionally, such libraries are built in the state where a president was born or grew. However, Trump was born in New York, who voted against him in three consecutive presidential elections and made him the first former president to be convicted of serious crimes last year.
Trump now lives mainly in Florida, and has filled the ranks of his administration with politicians and others in the state Sunshine.
The Democrats raised concerns in the audiences of the committees about whether local residents would support the costs of library construction. Brodeur said that all the costs of building the library, including planning costs, would fall before the president’s archives and the library.
In December, ABC News He agreed to pay $ 15 million for a Trump presidential library to resolve a demand for defamation. In the agreement, ABC News described the payment as a “charitable contribution” to a guarantee deposit account managed by Trump’s lawyer.
That would be equivalent to a small fraction of the total cost of building the library. For example, it was estimated that the library of former President Barack Obama in Chicago cost $ 830 million from 2021.
Little is known about what would be in a Trump presidential library, but the materials in these libraries generally include documents, artifacts or significant articles for the administration of a president.
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice returned the boxes from the FBI search of its Mar-A-Lago home in 2022 for classified documents. Trump said in a social publication of the truth that these boxes were being sent to Florida, where “one day they will be part of the Trump presidential library.”
