NY
Times - President Trump said on
Sunday that his administration finalized plans to transform East Potomac Golf
Links in Washington into a “world class championship golf course,” saying the
municipal course would close within four weeks and that its replacement would
be playable in about 15 months.
The announcement set up another
frantic legal clash over the site. A federal judge ordered the administration
in July to present her with any long-term plans for the course and not to carry
out a surprise overhaul as the president had with the East Wing of the White
House and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The Interior Department appeared
to have done just that earlier this month, taking down hundreds of trees over a
holiday weekend and giving the court and a group suing to stop ay changes to
the course less than a day to react.
In a post on social media on
Sunday morning, Mr. Trump appeared to affirm what a historical-preservation
group and two Washington residents had warned of in a federal lawsuit: that the
administration might move to seize the existing course before they had a real
chance to oppose the plan.
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