Trump was visiting his club pretty much every weekend back in the early days of his presidency, dragging along the national press corps with him.
A handful of reporters would sit for hours in vans waiting in motorcade formation for something to happen. Except for events where they got an invitation, rarely did the press get anywhere close to Trump and his members.
But that didn't stop details from leaking about what happened at the club while the president was there.
Right before one of my visits, for example, Trump caused a huge stir by working with his aides on a response to a North Korea missile test. He did that in front of his dinnertime guests.
I also learned much later through the Mueller report that one of my visits to Mar-a-Lago coincided with a critical weekend meeting at the club where Trump hosted Jeff Sessions and then-White House counsel Don McGahn. There, Trump urged his attorney general at the time to unrecuse himself from the FBI's Russia investigation.