'FAKE NEWS GONNA FAKE NEWS!': Donald Jr., Eric Trump Reveal The Truth About Reported Sale of Mar-a-Lago

A matter of hours after a Friday story claiming that Mar-a-Lago, the palatial Florida home of the 45th President Donald J. Trump, had been sold in the weeks prior to his historic and controversial arraignment in Atlanta, both Donald Trump, Jr. and younger brother Eric Trump reached out to news outlets to vehemently refute it as "Fake news."

First, according to Breitbart News, Donald Trump, Jr. told the outlet, 

"I woke up this morning to numerous media reports claiming that my dad transferred ownership of Mar-A-Lago to me, and while anyone would love to be gifted one of the most beautiful properties in the entire world, it is nothing more than total and complete fake news.”

He added, “A lot of media outlets should be embarrassed with themselves for running such a phony story, but we all know that most of them won’t even retract their reports because they have no shame. SAD."

The outlet reported that the story appeared and spread over the course of two or three days after false claims that Zillow, an online property listing service, showed the property as recently sold.

As reported by The Gateway Pundit, Eric Trump spoke out to clarify the matter on Friday. In a statement, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization firmly debunked the claims. 

 “This is pure FAKE NEWS and Zillow has corrected their listing. Mar-a-Lago has not been sold or transferred in any regard,” Trump told the outlet.

As noted by GP, prominent outlet Newsweek seems to have been taken in by the story when they reported, 

"Donald Trump has reportedly sold his signature Mar-a-Lago luxury residence in Florida, according to a Zillow listing which said the resort was purchased on August 4—weeks before the former president voluntarily turned himself in at Fulton County jail in Georgia, where he was booked on 13 felony counts.

But a later report by The Express mentions that the former president might have not really “sold” the property, but simply transferred its ownership to an organization owned by his son Donald Trump Jr.

The listing, which is still available on Zillow’s website, shows that a 5,061-square-foot residence at 1100 S Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida, was sold on Friday, August 4 for $422,000,000."

Eric Trump posted to X, "This is pure FAKE NEWS and Zillow has corrected their listing. Mar-a-Lago has not been sold or transferred in any regard. This story is total BS."