Report: Trump rigged phones at his estate to eavesdrop on guests

Posted by | June 30, 2016 14:43 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


Talk about a rigged system!

At Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach resort he runs as a club for paying guests and celebrities, Donald Trump had a telephone console installed in his bedroom that acted like a switchboard, connecting to every phone extension on the estate, according to six former workers. Several of them said he used that console to eavesdrop on calls involving staff.

Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks responded to written questions with one sentence: “This is totally and completely untrue.”

The managing director of Mar-a-Lago, Bernd Lembcke, did not respond to emails. Reached by phone, he said he referred the email query to Trump’s headquarters and said, “I have no knowledge of what you wrote.”

At the 126-room Mar-a-Lago mansion, Trump keeps an apartment set aside for himself and his family, and rents the rest out to guests and members.

BuzzFeed News spoke with six former employees familiar with the phone system at the estate.

Four of them — speaking on condition of anonymity because they signed nondisclosure agreements — said that Trump listened in on phone calls at the club during the mid-2000s. They did not know if he eavesdropped more recently.

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7 responses to Report: Trump rigged phones at his estate to eavesdrop on guests

  1. nola878 June 30th, 2016 at 15:45

    I’d like to see a bit more proof, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

    • anothertoothpick June 30th, 2016 at 16:00

      Not that hard to do if you have access to the phone closest, and a phone tester you can buy at any electrical supply house..

      • robert June 30th, 2016 at 16:26

        It’s not difficult at all if you built mar-a-lago.this is an old mob trick

      • Hirightnow June 30th, 2016 at 18:19

        Ad the circuitry for identifying active lines (“Oh,Look; A voltage drop!”) is easy to build.

  2. 17 June 30th, 2016 at 20:32

    I don’t know about this, but I’d bet he had a video camera rigged in his daughter’s bedroom.

  3. Allison Renée Alworth June 30th, 2016 at 23:02

    This sounds like Drumpf’s attempt to be more presidential – like the Nixon presidency, for example.

  4. mistlesuede July 1st, 2016 at 00:55

    James O’Keefe did the installation for him.

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