Trump's Mar-a-Lago club back in a spotlight it never really left

Former President Trump's 2024 campaign launch at Mar-a-Lago in November put his private residence and club back in the limelight. But the former Southern White House, as the Palm Beach estate was dubbed during Trump's one-term presidency, has rarely been out of the spotlight since January 2021.

Mar-a-Lago, after all, is from where Trump reasserted control of the Republican Party after losing the 2020 election and despite leaving the White House under a second impeachment cloud following the U.S. Capitol attack. It is where FBI agents entered and seized government files, including top secret documents, that Trump is said to have improperly kept at the property.

And it is where two days before Thanksgiving Trump attended dinner with  Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, sparking a political firestorm. That debacle has now reportedly led to new rules about who Trump can be approached by while he is at the club.

Prep for the polls: See who is running for president and compare where they stand on key issues in our Voter Guide