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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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API's Trump-Hotel Event and White House Meeting

Actions
reportedAPI 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 WashingtonRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
reportedThe 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 WashingtonRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • United States energy consumers and public
  • American Petroleum Institute
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 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.

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