Trump Bows Out of Fight For Space Outside Hotel Grand Opening
Washington Post
October 25, 2016
Every time Donald Trump holds an event at his new Washington hotel they've been there.
Out front..With signs..And sometimes a bullhorn.
Protesters have not allowed the presidential candidate to peacefully promote the
Old Post Office project or his candidacy there, despite the federal government giving Trump's company unusual leeway over the property outside his $212 million hotel.
Wednesday morning will be no different, as Trump plans to hold a grand opening celebration at the hotel and two anti-Trump groups have applied for sidewalk permits to protest two weeks before the election.
In the past, Trump Organization officials have either ignored the noise out front or stationed a security guard at the front of the hotel, located in the Old Post Office pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue.
But this time Trump hatched a unique plan to keep opponents away from his event.
A subsidiary of Trump's company applied for it's own public space permit for Wednesday morning, which would have given the magnate some control of the sidewalk along Pennsylvania Avenue and possibly forced protesters across the street.
Trump Old Post Office LLC, which leases the building from the federal government, applied for a permit to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the sidewalk Wednesday.
The company requested space for 300 people, 200 chairs and 30 camera tripods.
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