“We wanted to make sure we weighed in,” Mayor Juan Carlos Bermudez told the Miami Herald before Wednesday’s vote.
The Trump Doral resort is about 18 miles from the Hollywood casino and is run by Eric Trump, who told The Washington Post in March that a Doral location would be “unmatched from a gaming perspective.” The gaming deal, among other things, stops the Seminole Tribe from objecting to the transfer of existing slot machine licenses to anywhere 15 miles from its flagship casino in Hollywood, language that opens the door to former President Donald Trump purchasing a license and transferring it to his Doral golf resort.