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America First Audit

About this audit and its evidence

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.

Reversal ledger

Oldest to latest by event date. Each stop is one dated case.

Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip

unresolved
Promised
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.Open cited record · 2 sources
The record
Eric Trump traveled to the Dominican Republic in connection with a Trump-branded resort project while receiving Secret Service protection.Open cited record · 2 sourcesGAO included the Dominican Republic in its calculation of public protection costs for the three trips.Open cited record · 1 source
Who gained
  • Trump Organization Dominican Republic licensing business
Who paid
  • United States taxpayers
  • United States taxpayers
Audit finding
unresolved

The government bore protection costs connected to private business travel, but the cited record does not establish a new deal, a project profit or a payment of protection funds to the Trump business.

Causal strength: documented mechanism