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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 G7 at Doral Selection and Withdrawal

reversed
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
The White House announced that the 2020 G7 summit would be held at Trump National Doral.Open cited record · 1 sourceTrump withdrew Doral from consideration before the summit occurred.Open cited record · 1 source
Who paid
  • G7 governments and delegations
  • United States taxpayers
  • G7 governments and delegations
Audit finding
reversed

The initial selection would have directed official summit activity to a Trump-owned resort; withdrawal prevented the planned event from occurring there.

Causal strength: documented mechanism