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