Hundreds partied at Mar-a-Lago with Turning Point

President profited as sold out, $2,000/person reception and dinner flouting COVID guidance

Turning Point USA held a sold-out $2,000/person gala at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night. Based on photos posted to Instagram, it appears at least 280 people attended the reception and dinner—and that COVID-19 prevention policies were not followed.

Palm Beach County’s COVID-19 directives require wearing facial coverings “inside all businesses and establishments” as well as outdoors when social distancing is not being practiced. Additionally, the directives mandate adhering to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s social-distancing guidelines, which currently require staying six feet away from other people.

COVID-19 has killed more than 318,000 people in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University. The CDC predicts the pandemic will get worse in the coming weeks.

Here are some photos of Turning Point’s third annual winter gala—

Notable attendees included (all of who have been spotted before at Trump businesses)—

• S.D. Gov. Kristi Noem (R)

• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

• White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany

• former acting Director of National Intelligence and U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell

• Rep. Matt Goetz (R-FL)

• Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski

• former White House deputy spokesperson J. Hogan Gidley

• Trump confidant and clemency recipient Roger Stone

• Fox News’s Laura Ingraham

• major GOP donor The MyPillow Guy

• Turning Point chief creative officer and renowned plagiarist Benny Johnson

• Project Veritas’s James O’Keefe

• lobbyist David Spady

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