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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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Inaugural Committee and Trump Hotel Settlement

unresolved
Promised
The Presidential Inaugural Committee was organized to plan and support inauguration activities.Open cited record · 1 source
The record
The parties executed a settlement covering allegations that nonprofit inaugural funds had improperly benefited Trump businesses and related private interests.Open cited record · 1 sourceThe defendants agreed to make a payment that the District said would be directed to two nonprofit organizations.Open cited record · 2 sources
Audit finding
unresolved

The settlement directed money to charitable purposes and ended the case without a merits adjudication or admission by the defendants.

How the action connects to the outcome

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

People and impacts
Who gained
  • Youth nonprofit recipients designated by the District
Who paid
  • 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee and Trump business defendants