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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.

The FBI Headquarters Rebuild and the Nearby Trump Hotel

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
Trump participated in an Oval Office meeting about a revised plan to demolish and rebuild the FBI headquarters at its existing site.Open cited record · 1 sourceThe GSA inspector general documented the meeting and gaps in information about the White House discussions.Open cited record · 1 source
Who gained
  • Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
Who paid
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • United States taxpayers
  • United States taxpayers
Audit finding
unresolved

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

Causal strength: not established