
At Trump's freewheeling Mar-a-Lago, allies jockey for jobs, tee times and a spot on the buffet line
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CBS News spoke with more than a dozen people with knowledge of events at Mar-a-Lago in the weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day. They requested anonymity to share accounts of what was going on at the president-elect's Florida resort ahead of his second presidential term.
"Hello?" Donald Trump said into his cellphone one day last month. "Who is this?"
Music echoed through 1100 S. Ocean Boulevard, where he spent much of the 70-plus days of the presidential transition.

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