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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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Case 79 of 254

The Inaugural Committee's Trump Hotel Contract

Actions
documentedThe committee contracted for Trump Hotel event space after internal concerns about pricing and optics were communicated to Trump family members and committee officials.Office of the Attorney General for the District of ColumbiaProPublicaRead record · 2 sources
Outcomes
documentedThe District sued the committee and Trump entities, alleging that the hotel payments wasted nonprofit funds for private benefit.Office of the Attorney General for the District of ColumbiaOffice of the Attorney General for the District of ColumbiaRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee donors
  • 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee donors
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedThe inaugural committee was organized as a nonprofit to support the public purposes of the presidential inauguration.Office of the Attorney General for the District of ColumbiaRead record · 1 source

Promise unresolved

The contract and the internal warnings are documented. The characterization of unlawful nonprofit waste began as a civil allegation and stays one unless paired with the later final disposition.

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