Why Was the State Department Promoting Mar-a-Lago?
Three weeks ago, ShareAmerica, a website run by the State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs, published a post about Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida. The article is, at a glance, fairly innocuous, describing some of the Palm Beach estate’s notable features and offering a brief rundown of its history and how it came into Trump’s possession.
On Monday, however, the Bureau came under heavy fire when noticed the piece’s presence not only on ShareAmerica’s website but on that of and websites and social-media accounts. The post, as those outlets noted, could constitute an advertisement for Mar-a-Lago, which would arguably violate both the Constitution’s , which
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