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America First Audit

He said it in public. These are the documents on what happened next. Browse all records.

Why these cases

Trump sold “America First.” This record traces how public money, power, and risk moved toward family businesses, donors, favored firms, and foreign governments: and what workers, ranchers, retirees, patients, veterans, and small investors were left to absorb.

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America First Action Spending at the Trump Hotel

Actions
documentedAmerica First Action's FEC filing reported lodging and meal reimbursements to the Trump hotel after the pro-Trump super PAC used the property for events.Public CitizenThe Washington PostFederal Election CommissionRead record · 3 sources
Outcomes
documentedThe disclosed event or expenditure routed organizational funds to the identified Trump property during the presidency.Public CitizenThe Washington PostFederal Election CommissionRead record · 3 sources
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • America First Action, Inc.
  • United States public
  • America First Action, Inc.
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedAt 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.TimeU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformRead record · 2 sources

Promise unresolved

The cited records document a political or interest-group payment path to a Trump business during his presidency; they do not establish an unlawful exchange or quantify Trump's personal net income from the event.

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