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Room rentals, resort fees and furniture removal: How Trump’s company charged the U.S. government more than $900,000

August 27, 2020 at 4:51 p.m. EDT
Members of the Secret Service stand guard as President Trump speaks during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., last year. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

The Secret Service had asked for a room close to the president. But Mar-a-Lago said it was too late. The room was booked. Would agents like a room across the street from the president, instead?

“I do have a Beach Cabana available,” a staff member at President Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Fla., wrote in March 2017 to a Secret Service agent seeking rooms for the upcoming weekend. “Across the street at the Beach Club, North end of the pool.”