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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 Foreign-Profit Identification Gap

Actions
documentedThe company's internal policy said it would not require every guest to identify a foreign-government relationship and generally relied on self-identification.U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedLater Mazars records documented foreign-government-linked payments beyond what the public donation disclosures could independently reconcile.Roll CallU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democratic StaffRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who gained
  • Trump hotel businesses
  • Trump hotel businesses
  • United States Treasury
Who paid or was affected
  • United States Treasury
  • Foreign-government patrons
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 contradicted

The identification policy could not comprehensively identify foreign-government patronage, which leaves the announced donation promise unauditable against the full customer base.

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