Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip

2017-01-04

Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip

unresolved

Promised: 2017-01-11At 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.Open cited record · 2 sources
The record: 2017-01-04Eric Trump traveled to Uruguay in connection with a Trump-branded development while receiving Secret Service protection.Open cited record · 2 sources2019-01-17GAO included Uruguay in the three adult-child international trips for which it calculated federal protection costs.Open cited record · 1 source
Who gained: Trump Organization Uruguay licensing business
Who paid: United States taxpayers
United States taxpayers
Audit finding: unresolved
The trip created a documented public-cost/private-business-support pattern; it does not establish that the protection spending was paid to a Trump entity or produced a quantified profit.
Causal strength: documented mechanism

Evidence chronology

promise2017-01-11documented
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
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action2017-01-04documented
Eric Trump traveled to Uruguay in connection with a Trump-branded development 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
Open underlying ledger entry
outcome2019-01-17documented
GAO included Uruguay in the three adult-child international trips for which it calculated federal protection costs.
- 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
Open underlying ledger entry
limitation2019-01-17documented
The available total is shared across three trips and cannot be assigned wholly to Uruguay without trip-level source data.
- 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
Open underlying ledger entry

Responses, legal status, contrary evidence, and limitations

limitation
The available total is shared across three trips and cannot be assigned wholly to Uruguay without trip-level source data.