API's Trump-Hotel Event and White House Meeting
What happened
promisedocumented At Trump's January 2017 press conference, counsel for the Trump Organization said the arrangement would isolate him from the business, bar new foreign deals and donate foreign-government hotel profits to the Treasury.
- Time: Read a Transcript of Donald Trump's Press Conference on Conflicts of Interest2017-01-11 · Sheri Dillon remarks: no new foreign deals, limited information rights, compliance counsel, and donation of foreign-government hotel profits
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Oversight Committee Requests Documents on Trump Organization's Treatment of Foreign Government Payments2017-04-21 · Bipartisan committee letter describing the January pledge and requesting implementation records
actionreported API held an event at the Trump hotel, and API leaders then attended a White House meeting concerning trade policy.
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Special interests patronizing Trump properties also seek White House influence2018-06-07 · API hotel event and White House meeting chronology; no-causation limitation
outcomereported The watchdog record identified the sequence but did not claim proof that the hotel stay produced access or policy action.
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Special interests patronizing Trump properties also seek White House influence2018-06-07 · API hotel event and White House meeting chronology; no-causation limitation
limitationdocumented API also had ordinary institutional access as a major trade association; no causal link to the hotel event is established.
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Special interests patronizing Trump properties also seek White House influence2018-06-07 · API hotel event and White House meeting chronology; no-causation limitation
- Trump White House Archives: Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with Energy Sector CEOs2020-04-03 · Participant remarks identifying the American Petroleum Institute
People and organizations
- United States energy consumers and publicaffected party
- American Petroleum Institutebeneficiary
- Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.beneficiary
- American Petroleum Institutepayer
- Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.recipient
Assessment
The patronage and the official access happened in sequence. The record does not establish that one caused the other, or that a specific policy result followed the hotel spending.