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America First Audit

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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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Chinese Financing Around the Trump-Branded Indonesia Project

Actions
documentedThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee sought records concerning an announced Chinese government guarantee associated with MNC Lido City, which included Trump-branded development.U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
reportedReporting treated the Indonesia work as continuation of a preexisting deal and did not establish a direct state payment to Trump.ProPublica and USA TodayThe Washington PostRead record · 2 sources
People and impacts
Who gained
  • MNC Lido City development
  • Trump Indonesia licensing business
  • MNC Lido City development
Who paid or was affected
  • Chinese government-linked financing source
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 unresolved

The financing announcement created a documented foreign-state/conflict exposure around an existing Trump-branded project, but the cited sources do not establish that funds were paid to Trump, that Trump arranged the financing or that it caused U.S. policy.

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