The police raised the barriers that had protected the Trump Tower in New York for four years, the residence of Donald Trump before reaching the presidency in 2016 and where the offices of his real estate holding are located.
Last Friday, “in collaboration with the US secret service, the decision was made to lift the barriers around Trump Tower,” a New York police spokesman told AFP on Thursday.
But the former president did not return to his Fifth Avenue triplex after his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, instead moving to his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Florida, his official residence since late 2019.
Numerous anti-government protests took place in front of the Trump Tower during his tenure.
Last summer, Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, Trump’s great enemy, invited a group of militants to paint with him a huge mural with yellow letters on the street in front of the Trump Tower: “#BLACK LIVES MATTER.”
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