Oof, your comment is dumber than a participation trophy at a spelling bee. Let's dissect it with actual Florida law instead of whatever fever-dream logic you, the Trump hater is huffing. The ages, straight from Florida statutes (no spin): Sexual consent age in Florida: 18. Full stop. Under 18? You can't legally consent to sex with anyone. There is a narrow "Romeo & Juliet" carve-out: 16- or 17-year-olds can hook up with someone 16 to 23 without it being a felony. But anyone 24+ touching a 16- or 17-year-old? That's a second-degree felony. Under 16? Even stricter statutory rape territory. Ignorance of age is no defense. Period. Legal employment (child labor) age in Florida: 14. (this is where you fail and stumble like a true ignoramus) Minors 14 / 15 can work in non-hazardous jobs (spa attendant, server, caddy, front desk, exactly the kind of roles at a private club like Mar-a-Lago). 16 and 17 year-olds have basically no restrictions except hazardous stuff (no heavy machinery). Federal FLSA and Florida law both green-light this. Resorts, hotels, and country clubs hire teens all the time and it's been standard for decades. Recent tweaks under DeSantis just made it easier for 14 and 15 year-olds in certain non-hazardous gigs. So you being ti uniformed hater you are screams "Why did Trump have underage girls at Mar-a-Lago in the first place?!" like it's some Epstein-level gotcha… then immediately admits the distinction they just tried to weaponize: "employing underage people who may be underage for consent purposes but not for employment are two very different things." Listen and pay attention, that's literally the law. Florida lets you hire a 14-year-old to fold towels or serve cocktails at a luxury club, but you can't touch them until they're 18. That's not a "gotcha”, that's the entire point of having two separate ages. One is about paying teenagers minimum wage for summer jobs. The other is about protecting them from adults. Businesses have been doing the former for 100+ years without it being a sex-crime conspiracy. Your comment is the intellectual equivalent of: Congrats, genius. You've discovered child labor laws. Mar-a-Lago isn't running a daycare or a brothel; it's a private club that, like every other high-end Florida resort, hires local teens for entry-level work. "Underage girls" in a workplace context = legal summer job. "Underage girls" in a sexual context = felony. The fact that you had to immediately clarify the distinction proves your own smear collapses the second anyone checks the statute. Next time try a real scandal instead of this "teens exist near Trump therefore pedo" copium. Florida law already drew the line for you—try reading it before posting. https://criminaldefenseattorneytampa.com/sexually-motivated-crimes/age-of-consent/ https://www.flsenate.gov/PublishedContent/Session/2012/InterimReports/2012-214cj.pdf https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0794/Sections/0794.05.html https://www.maralagoclub.com/terms-of-service https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/child-labor/faqs/
