{"id":274226,"date":"2026-05-17T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274226\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:51:09","slug":"new-lawsuit-filed-by-a-group-of-miami-residents-seek-to-block-outrageous-trump-presidential-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274226\/","title":{"rendered":"New lawsuit filed by a group of Miami residents seek to block “outrageous” Trump Presidential Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump Presidential Library is facing a new legal challenge<\/a>. A group of Miami residents, including historian Marvin Dunn, filed suit last week in federal court to block the transfer of land for the proposed library.<\/p>\n

The downtown Miami site, located next to the Freedom Tower, was originally controlled for Miami Dade College for future growth, but Governor Ron DeSantis demanded the college surrender the three-acre parcel so that it could be used by the Trump family to build Trump’s presidential library.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit argues the land transfer would constitute a gift, and violates emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which specifically prevents the president from receiving financial benefits \u2013 so-called emoluments \u2013 other than his salary. The Founding Fathers believed it would be wrong for groups to be able to provide gifts and other financial benefits to a president to curry favor.<\/p>\n

The suit argues that since the plans for the 47-story tower call for not just a library but also a Trump hotel, condos and commercial offices for lease, it constitutes a financial gift to the President and is therefore illegal.<\/p>\n

On Sunday’s Facing South Florida,<\/a> one of the attorneys bringing the lawsuit, Gerald Greenberg, spoke to CBS Miami’s Jim DeFede<\/a> about what makes this presidential library different than others.<\/p>\n

“This is not, by any stretch, a presidential library,” Greenberg argued. “You know, I’ve been to a number of them. The Harry Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, doesn’t have a 47-story skyscraper. I happened to go last year to the George W. Bush Library in Texas. It’s a library and it’s a museum. Same with the Clintons, Obamas, the Reagans. If this were just a library, we would not have this lawsuit, but they’ve made it crystal clear. This isn’t a library. The president himself said, I don’t do libraries and museums. He said he expects it to be a hotel. They released this well-documented and well-produced video showing what it’s going to be. It’s going to be hotel. It is going to a commercial center.”<\/p>\n

Added Marvin Dunn: “Miami-Day College will get nothing back from this highly commercial pitch of the Trump family. That’s outrageous, absolutely outrageous.”<\/p>\n

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