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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.

Promises & outcomes

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Public Protection for Donald Trump Jr.'s India Sales 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
Donald Trump Jr. traveled in India to promote Trump-branded condominium projects while receiving Secret Service protection and State Department support.Open cited record · 2 sourcesFOIA records documented federal travel, lodging, vehicle and overtime costs associated with the trip.Open cited record · 2 sources
Audit finding
unresolved

The government incurred protection and support costs for private family-business travel, but those costs are not the same as payments to Trump entities or project profit.

How the action connects to the outcome

The cited records document how the action led to the outcome.

People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump Organization India licensing business
Who paid
  • United States taxpayers
  • United States taxpayers