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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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The FBI Headquarters Rebuild and the Nearby Trump Hotel

Actions
documentedTrump participated in an Oval Office meeting about a revised plan to demolish and rebuild the FBI headquarters at its existing site.General Services Administration Office of Inspector GeneralRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
documentedThe GSA inspector general documented the meeting and gaps in information about the White House discussions.General Services Administration Office of Inspector GeneralRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • United States taxpayers
  • United States taxpayers
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

Trump's participation and the revised government plan are documented. The official record does not establish that protecting the nearby Trump hotel drove the decision.

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