Boston Businessman Goes Dark After Trump Mar-a-Lago Controversy

BOSTON, MA – You may recall a meeting of heavies at the swanky Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last weekend. Perhaps they were cutting deals, swapping stories of lavish getaways or bantering over the afternoon's round of golf.

Nope.

The dinner between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe turned into a satellite situation room Saturday night when the table got word of a North Korean ballistic missile test. And all of a sudden the club's patrons had their security clearance bumped up.

The seemingly cavalier attitude toward solving an issue of national security irked many, though White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer assured reporters Monday that "no classified material" was divulged over clams.

But as is wont to happen in the age of social media, the optics didn't necessarily gel with the administration's reassurances.

Boston businessman Richard DeAgazio – who also has appeared as an extra in "Mystic River" and "Ted" – had front-row seats to the Tom Clancy novel come to life, and couldn't help but share on his Facebook page.

"HOLY MOLY! It was fascinating to watch the flurry of activity at dinner when the news came that North Korea had launched a missile in the direction of Japan," DeAgazio wrote, with all the fervor of someone recapping last night's "Game of Thrones" episode. That post, as well as one of him posing with a military aide in possession of the "nuclear football," a device that allows the president to authorize a nuclear strike while mobile, raised eyebrows over Trump's approach to national security.

Though DeAgazio told the Washington Post in an interview that he didn't think the meeting posed a risk to national security, he has since gone dark on social media, deleting both his Facebook and LinkedIn pages.

DeAgazio is a Waltham native who served as president of Boston Capital Services from 1981 to 2007, according to Heavy, which managed to pounce on his LinkedIn before it was deleted. He has also been involved in charity work and was a principal at Ironside Associates, LLC before retiring, the site reported.

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