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Controversial developer Geoff Palmer is Trump’s biggest donor

Builder has chipped in $2M for presidential candidate's Super PAC

The Orsini II at 550 North Figueroa Street, Donald Trump and developer Geoff Palmer

From the Los Angeles website: Geoff Palmer wants to make America great again.

The infamous Beverly Hills developer has been revealed at as Donald Trump’s most generous donor to date, having written a whopping $2 million check to the Trump Super PAC, Bloomberg reported, citing the Republican candidate’s latest FEC quarterly report.

Palmer is a polarizing figure in the Los Angeles real estate scene — L.A. Curbed called him Downtown’s worst developer — because of his massive faux-Italianate apartments such as the Orsini, the Medici and the most notorious Da Vinci, which was set on fire while it was still in development in 2014. [more]

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