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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.

Said vs. done

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  1. Firing the Inspectors General
  2. Paying to Fire and Rehire
  3. Meta Account-Suspension Settlement
  4. The Israel Aid and Arms Ledger
  5. X Account-Suspension Settlement
  6. Musk's DOGE Role and Existing Federal Contracts
  7. King in All but Name
  8. Justin Sun, World Liberty Financial and the SEC Case
  9. Retirement Service by Chainsaw
  10. The Social Security Counter-Window Test
  11. World Liberty Financial Token Sale
  12. Due Process Under the Deportation Machine
  13. Trump World Center Pune

King in All but Name

Actions
documentedAfter the Transportation Department attempted to terminate New York's congestion-pricing agreement, the White House posted an image of Trump in a crown with the attributed words 'Long Live the King.'U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New YorkRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
documentedThe federal district court vacated the termination letters as arbitrary, capricious, beyond the agency's authority, and not in accordance with law; it did not rule that Trump held monarchical power.U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New YorkRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
  • New York congestion-pricing and transit stakeholders
  • New York-area travelers and transit users
  • Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority

Amounts and affected parties

  1. investmentProgram establishment investment cited by the courtMore than $500 million expended
    Reported investor / source
    Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority
    Financially affected
    New York congestion-pricing and transit stakeholders
    reported · 2026-03-03 · observedRead source record
    Calculation detailsPopulation Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority; New York congestion-pricing and transit stakeholders; New York-area travelers and transit usersPeriod 2019-04-01 to 2025-02-19Basis Use the court's statement that TBTA expended over $500 million; encode $500 million as a lower bound and do not treat it as loss.Limits Lower-bound program expenditure, not damages caused by the attempted termination and not a federal payment.
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedThe platform promised to defend the Constitution and govern for the people.The American Presidency ProjectRead record · 1 source

Promise contradicted

Official imagery cast Trump as a monarch, celebrating a claim of control that the district court held the agency did not have. That ruling remained on appeal, and the royal title is an attributed editorial frame, not an invented legal classification.

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Cases

  1. Kraft family: Trump access, dropped charges, board power and corporate sanctions
  2. Trump clemency advocacy: six-figure fees, DOJ routing and investigationsEvent date
  3. Trump installs a donor's wife as his board remakes and shutters the Kennedy CenterEvent date

Evidence records

  1. 30-year mortgage rate: 7.4 % (2026-10-15)Event date
  2. 10-year Treasury yield: 5.1 % (2026-10-15)Event date
  3. 2-year Treasury yield: 4.77 % (2026-10-15)Event date