Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip
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
actiondocumented Eric Trump traveled to the Dominican Republic in connection with a Trump-branded resort project while receiving Secret Service protection.
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: CREW gets Trump family business Secret Service spending documents2018-08-03 · Business-purpose travel examples and FOIA spending records
- U.S. Government Accountability Office: Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to Congress2019-02-05 · Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
outcomedocumented GAO included the Dominican Republic in its calculation of public protection costs for the three trips.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office: Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to Congress2019-02-05 · Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
limitationreported The Trump Organization treated later work as continuation of an existing project; the cited evidence does not resolve whether every later transaction was a new foreign deal.
- The Washington Post: The Trump brothers' claims that they no longer profit from foreign deals2019-11-01 · Scotland, Dominican Republic and Indonesia project analysis; existing-deal response
People and organizations
- United States taxpayersaffected party
- Trump Organization Dominican Republic licensing businessbeneficiary
- United States taxpayerspayer
Assessment
The government paid protection costs tied to private business travel. The cited record does not establish a new deal, a project profit, or protection funds reaching the Trump business.