She had expressed support for Trump on a Facebook page in August, but was not exceptionally vocal, saying 'we don't need to invite him for dinner.' PBS reporter Daniel Bush said an unnamed company representative told him the Trump campaign had called the landscapers and said their location 'was close to an exit on I-95, and was secure, and that's why they wanted to use it.' The local Republican ward leader told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he was not notified in advance and that neither Four Seasons' owner Marie Siravo nor anyone in her family were particularly involved in local politics. At 10:45 a.m., the hotel verified that the event was at the landscapers. 'In reality, the mistake was not in the booking, but in a garbled game of telephone,' The New York Times wrote. One of the president's tweets that identifies the landscaping business as the site for the press conference reads: ' 'Four Season’s Landscaping! Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping - 11:30am!' ” According to The New York Times, Trump's team had intended to hold the press conference at the landscaper business but the president thought they meant the upscale Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia in Center City. Shortly afterwards he issued another tweet, clarifying that the venue was Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Įarly on November 7, Trump tweeted the location of the press conference as 'Four Seasons'. Lewandowski decided the Trump campaign needed to find a venue where such disruption was less likely, in a part of the city where voters had been more supportive of Trump's candidacy. Pro-Biden demonstrators nearby played Beyoncé's ' Party' so loudly that Bondi could not be heard. On November 5, campaign spokespeople Corey Lewandowski and Pam Bondi attempted to talk to the media just outside the convention center about a court ruling that allowed campaign observers to stand closer to the counting tables. The streets in the area had been filled with demonstrators supporting each candidate. 3.2 Reaction by Four Seasons Total LandscapingĪfter Election Day on November 3, 2020, Philadelphia election officials had set up absentee ballot counting efforts in the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City, as downtown Philadelphia is known locally.In response to the press conference, a Four Seasons-themed charity run was created, and the landscaping company capitalized on the newfound attention by selling T-shirts and other merchandise. It resulted in lawyers withdrawing from the legal team that the Trump campaign had assembled to challenge the election results.

It garnered further ridicule after it emerged that one of the witnesses who spoke at the event was a convicted sex offender. The event was ridiculed by journalists and users of social media. Several news outlets characterized the event as the symbolic end of Trump's presidency. Shortly after Giuliani began talking to the assembled reporters, the Associated Press projected Biden as the winner of the Pennsylvania vote and thus the nationwide election. This site selection led to speculation that the Trump campaign meant to book the upscale Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia, five city blocks from the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where Philadelphia's ballots were being counted.

Many journalists and others quickly observed a comical aspect to its location, near a sex shop and a crematorium. The site of the press conference, a local landscaping business, was unexpected.

The event was held at the company's garage door and parking lot to discuss the status of the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the ballot-counting process in the state, where the president's early election lead over Joe Biden had shifted to a shortfall as mailed-in ballots were counted for Philadelphia, historically a heavily Democratic city. On November 7, 2020, four days after the United States presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and an attorney for then-president Donald Trump, hosted a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a small business in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Near Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference given by Rudy Giuliani

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