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Charities Tiptoe Back To Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

"Trump" and "MAGA" purses sit on a poolside table before the start of the Republican Party Lincoln's Day Dinner at Mar-a-Lago on March 16, 2018.

The charity circuit is tiptoeing its way back to Mar-a-Lago.

The Palm Beach Habilitation Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute both will host events this winter at President Donald Trump’s private Palm Beach club, after they joined more than two dozen charities in 2017 in relocatingtheir fundraisers to other venues following Trump’s controversial comments and policies.

And, in a sign the stigma that hovered over Mar-a-Lago may be fading, a new charity will join the Palm Beach club’s roster: KidSanctuary Campus, whose president formerly served as Mar-a-Lago’s special events director.

Read more at the Palm Beach Post

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