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Trump hosted his annual Super Bowl party on Sunday night at his West Palm Beach golf club, where guests ate wings, hot dogs, and burgers as part of the game day menu. Former NFL coach Urban Meyer attended.
An attendee reported that Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, was also in attendance. However, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was not present, as he was spotted at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort earlier in the weekend.
The golf club was also without former first lady Melania Trump, who is rarely seen there.
In an interview with reporters, the guest said that Trump looked at ease as he talked football with Meyer. Meyer lost his job with the Jacksonville Jaguars even before the season began.
‘He was happy. In a great mood,’ the guest reported. ‘It was a lot of fun.’
Donald Trump held a Super Bowl party at his Palm Beach golf club.
That’s former Jaguars coach Urban Meyer at his table. pic.twitter.com/7U0gGyl8nR
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Big screens showed the Los Angeles Rams beating the Cincinnati Bengals while staff in striped referee uniforms served guests.
A weekend packed with events capped off at Trump’s Florida headquarters with the party.
Earlier this week, Mar-a-Lago hosted a fundraiser for Harriet Hageman, who is running against Rep. Liz Cheney in her Wyoming congressional district.
In pictures that were posted on social media, both Belichick and Meyer looked like they were gearing up for a night at the club which is in Palm Beach.
Details were revealed on the same day that an excerpt of a new book revealed how Trump and Belichick dealt with their differences.
During an interview with the authors of “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” Trump said the coach’s refusal to accept the Medal of Freedom after the attacks on the White House annoyed him.
In an interview with Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, Trump told them that Belichick ‘chickened out’ when becoming one of only four people in history to decline an honor.
‘One of the rejections that had bothered him the most had come from Bill Belichick, the legendary coach of the New England Patriots who had declined Trump’s attempt to grant him the Presidential Medal of Freedom,’ Burns and Martin wrote in an excerpt posted on Yahoo Sports.
‘In the immediate aftermath of the riot, it was just not possible for him to appear with Trump.
‘Back then, Trump said, Belichick had ‘chickened out.’
‘But get this, Trump confided: The coach had just a week earlier been playing golf at Trump’s nearby course. Trump had run into him there on the second-to-last hole.
‘”He came up to me on the seventeenth,” the former commander-in-chief recounted with relish.
‘Stretching credulity for anyone familiar with Belichick’s gruff persona, Trump claimed: “He hugged me and kissed me.”‘
Trump was endorsed by the coach prior to the 2016 election.
‘Congratulations on a tremendous campaign. You have dealt with an unbelievable slanted and negative media, and have come out beautifully – beautifully,’ Belichick’s letter to Trump read.
‘You’ve proved to be the ultimate competitor and fighter. Your leadership is amazing.
‘I have always had tremendous respect for you, but the toughness and perseverance you have displayed over the past year is remarkable.
‘Hopefully, tomorrow’s election results will give the opportunity to make America great again. Best wishes for great results tomorrow.’
In December, Meyer was fired after the Jaguars went 2-11.
The party comes on the heels of the release of a bombshell report by special counsel John Durham claiming that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign team developed a spying program on Trump’s White House servers. After that report, damning tweets from Hillary Clinton resurfaced.
A review of Clinton’s unearthed tweets from the 2016 general election shows how she promoted unsubstantiated reports about Donald Trump’s Russian connection.
Clinton promoted a narrative that Trump was secretly communicating with Russians via Alfa Bank while running for president.
‘Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,’ she tweeted on October 31, 2016 alongside a statement from Jake Sullivan, her then-special policy advisor.
‘This secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump’s ties to Russia,’ Sullivan’s statement read. ‘It certainly seems the Trump Organization felt it had something to hide, given that it apparently took steps to conceal the link when it was discovered by journalists.’
On the same day, Clinton tweeted: ‘It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia’ in addition to promoting an article on Slate, which questioned whether Trump was really using a secret server to correspond with allies overseas.
She included a box in her tweet to claim that such a server existed and was used to ‘communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.’
‘When a reporter asked about it, they shut it down. One week later, they created a different server with a different name for the same purpose.’
Among those alleging that Clinton’s camp spied on Trump’s servers is Republican Representative Jim Jordan.
‘We’ve never seen anything like this in history,’ Jordan told Fox & Friends on Sunday morning.
‘So President Trump’s statement yesterday, I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened in the history of our great country.’
The ‘spying’ was ‘worse than [we] thought,’ Jordan continued.
In a statement on Sunday, Trump compared the alleged spying to Watergate, the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon.
‘What Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left Democrats did with respect to spying on a President of the United States, even while in office, is a far bigger crime than Watergate,’ Trump said.
‘It will be interesting to see how it was covered by the media and what Mitch McConnell and the RINOs will be doing about it. This is an insult to the Republican Party, but a far greater insult to our Nation.’
After Durham made a court filing in response to the alleged hack, Trump responded with a scathing attack, claiming Team Clinton’s behavior would once have merited an execution.
‘In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.’
Source: The Republic Brief