PALM BEACH, Florida — On March 15, the Republican Party of Palm Beach County held its Lincoln Day Gala at Mar-a-Lago, where its special guest was also its host, Mar-a-Lago owner and former President Donald Trump. Around 8:30 p.m., Trump interrupted his private dinner on the outdoor terrace (a dinner with one aide and me, for a mostly on-the-record conversation), to make a brief speech to the Republican group gathered in another building in the complex.
Trump walked to the podium to his usual entrance music, Lee Greenwood‘s “God Bless the U.S.A.” To say the reception was wildly enthusiastic would be an understatement. The hometown Mar-a-Lago crowd’s reaction to Trump was more than just political enthusiasm: more intense, more personal, more devoted.
Former President Donald Trump fires up a campaign rally in Hialeah, Florida,
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