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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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American Arms, Gaza Outcomes

Actions
documentedThe Trump administration approved continued possible transfers of named U.S. weapons systems to the Israeli government, including the Hellfire notification.Defense Security Cooperation AgencyRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
reportedAmnesty International attributed U.S.-made JDAM components to two October 2023 Israeli strikes that it assessed as unlawful and reported killed 43 civilians; this is a civil-society investigation, not an adjudicated war-crime finding.Amnesty InternationalRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Government of Israel (proposed Hellfire sale recipient)
Who paid or was affected
  • Palestinian civilians in the two investigated Gaza strikes

Amounts and affected parties

  1. otherReported civilian deaths in two investigated strikes43 reported civilian deaths people
    Measured subject
    Palestinian civilians in the two investigated Gaza strikes
    reported · 2024-04-30 · observedRead source record
    Calculation detailsPopulation Government of Israel (proposed Hellfire sale recipient); Palestinian civilians in the two investigated Gaza strikesPeriod 2023-10-10 to 2023-10-22Basis Direct source observation: Amnesty's named-case count across the two investigated October 2023 strikes; do not generalize to all Gaza casualties.Limits Civil-society incident investigation; legal characterization is not an adjudicated finding and casualty verification is bounded to the named cases.
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedThe platform promised to seek peace in the Middle East while standing with Israel.The American Presidency ProjectRead record · 1 source

Promise unresolved

Documented prior incidents show the civilian-harm risk attached to U.S.-origin munitions, while the administration continued the transfer pipeline without public incident-level assurance that future systems could not contribute to similar harm.

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